Job 31:38

KJV1611 – Modern English

If my land cries against me, or its furrows likewise complain;

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  • Job 20:27 : 27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
  • Ps 65:13 : 13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered with grain; they shout for joy, they also sing.
  • Hab 2:11 : 11 For the stone shall cry out from the wall, and the beam from the timber shall answer it.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

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  • 39If I have eaten its fruits without payment, or caused the owners to lose their life;

  • 37I would declare to Him the number of my steps; like a prince would I approach Him.

  • Job 31:7-8
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    7If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any stain has cleaved to my hands;

    8Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out.

  • Job 31:12-14
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    12For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

    13If I have despised the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they contended with me;

    14What then shall I do when God rises up? When He visits, what shall I answer Him?

  • 4As for me, is my complaint to a man? And if it were, why should my spirit not be troubled?

  • Job 19:7-8
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    7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no justice.

    8He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

  • 5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach,

  • 24For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water.

  • 18O earth, do not cover my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.

  • 40Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.

  • 25Did I not weep for those in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

  • 35Oh that one would hear me! Behold, my desire is that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.

  • 31My harp is also turned to mourning, and my flute to the voice of those who weep.

  • 3The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.

  • Ps 38:16-18
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    16For I said, 'Hear me, lest otherwise they rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.'

    17For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.

    18For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

  • 16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

  • 2Even today my complaint is bitter; my suffering is heavier than my groaning.

  • 28So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to Him, and He hears the cry of the afflicted.

  • Joel 1:17-19
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    17The seed shrivels under their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

    18How the animals groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

    19O LORD, to you will I cry: for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.

  • 19Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I keep silent, I shall die.

  • Job 31:19-20
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    19If I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or any poor without covering;

    20If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

  • 11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 15What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 2Attend to me, and hear me; I mourn in my complaint and make a noise,

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    3O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there is iniquity in my hands;

  • 31Yet You will plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.

  • 4Does He not see my ways, and count all my steps?

  • 18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

  • 2I poured out my complaint before Him; I showed Him my trouble.

  • 31Therefore I will howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; my heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my body.

    10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • Lam 3:8-9
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    8Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.

    9He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

  • 20My friends scorn me, but my eye pours out tears to God.

  • 17But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is taken captive.

  • 25If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

  • 12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

  • 28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

  • 29If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted myself up when evil found him;

  • 14If I sin, then You mark me, and You will not acquit me from my iniquity.