Job 31:38

World English Bible (2000)

If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;

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Referenced Verses

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

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  • 39 if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

  • 37 I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince would I go near to him.

  • Job 31:7-8
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    7 if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

    8 then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

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

    13 "If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;

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

  • 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

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

    8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

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

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

  • 18 "Earth, don't cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

  • 40 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

  • 25 Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?

  • 35 oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment!

  • 31 Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

  • 3 The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

  • Ps 38:16-18
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    16 For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."

    17 For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

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

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

  • 2 "Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

  • 28 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

  • Joel 1:17-19
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    17 The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

    18 How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

    19 Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.

  • 19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

  • Job 31:19-20
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    19 if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

    20 if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;

  • 11 "Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 15 What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

  • 2 Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,

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    3 Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

  • 31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

  • 4 Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps?

  • 18 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

  • 2 I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.

  • 31 Therefore will I wail for Moab; yes, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir Heres shall they mourn.

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    9 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

    10 For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

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    8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

    9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.

  • 20 My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

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

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

  • 12 "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

  • 28 I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

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

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