Job 31:39

Without money — Either without paying the price for the land, or by defrauding my workmen of their wages. Life — Killing them that I might have undisturbed possession of it, as Ahab did Naboth.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If I have eaten the fruits thereof - Margin, strength. The strength of the earth is that which the earth produces or which is the result of its s...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused (e) the owners thereof to lose their life: (e) Meaning, that he was not a briber or...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 31. The Oath of Clearing. Job's final protestation of his innocence, and appeal to God to judge him. This chapter, says Duhm, is the high-water...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

have caused, &c. . made the souls of the owners groan. life . soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: If I have eaten the fruits thereof without mo...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: Lose ... life - not literally, but 'h...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job Protests the Innocence of his Past Life Job's virtues are those of a great Arab prince, such as are admired still: namely, blameless family li...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1-25 ; Job 30:1-31 ; Job 31:1-40 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become in...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Clean Life Job 31:1-40 Job had specially guarded against impurity, for its heritage is one of calamity and disaster. He is sure that even i...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This whole chapter is taken up with Job's solemn oath of innocence. It is ills official answer to the line of argument adopted by his three friends....
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(33) В¶ If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: (34) Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of famili...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money ,.... Or, "the strength thereof without silver" b; see Genesis 4:12 , silver being the money chief...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: Ver. 39. If I have eaten the fruits thereo...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 f...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Though Job's misery was complete, he returns in this chapter to the defence of his whole life, which was comparatively more virtuous than that of any...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job's Protestation of His Integrity. B. C. 1520....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Without money; either without paying the price required by the right owner for the land, or by defrauding my workmen of the wages of their labours....
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOB’S SELF-VINDICATION.—HIS SOLILOQUY CONTINUED Concludes his speeches by a solemn, particular, and extended declaration of the purity and uprig...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 31:1 . A maid. The LXX, followed by the Chaldaic, read virgin; but our English version has the most ancient support. Job was pure and spotless...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The conclusion of Job's long speech (ch. 26-31.) is now reached. He winds it up by a solemn vindication of himself from all the charg...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job's Appeal to be Heard
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

if I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, having taken some one's land in injustice, without payment, or have caused the owners thereof to l...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 21:13-16 ; 1 Kings 21:19 ; Ezekiel 22:12 ; Ezekiel 22:13 ; Ezekiel 22:6 ; Genesis 4:12 ; Isaiah 26:21 ; Proverbs 1:19

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

Related Commentaries of Job 31:39

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 31:39