Job 31:39 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

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 money - I have never been that narrow-minded man who, through a principle of covetousness, exhausts his land, putting himself to no charges, by labor and manure, to strengthen it; or defrauds those of their wages who were employed under him. If I have eaten the fruits of it, I have cultivated it well to produce those fruits; and this has not been without money, for I have gone to expenses on the soil, and remunerated the laborers.

Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life - Coverdale translates, Yee yf I have greved eny of the plowmen. They have not panted in labor without due recompense.

Job 31:39

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