Job 31:38-40 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

If my land cry against me To wit, to God, for revenge,

(as the like phrase signifies, Genesis 4:10; Habakkuk 2:11,) because I have gotten it from the right owners by fraud or violence, as my friends accuse me. If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money Either without paying the price required by the right owner of the land, or by defrauding the workmen of the wages of their labours. Or have caused the owners to lose their life Killing them, that I might have undisturbed possession of it, as Ahab did Naboth. The words of Job are ended To wit, in answer to his friends: for he speaks but little afterward, and that is to God.

Job 31:38-40

38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;i

39 If I have eaten the fruitsj thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cocklek instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.