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OET (OET-LV) If her/its_vigor/produce[fn] I_have_eaten not money and_breath owners_its I_have_caused_to_breathe_out.
31:39 Note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
OET (OET-RV) if I’ve eaten what it produces with paying fair wages,
⇔ or I’ve caused the death of its owners,
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
בְלִי־כָ֑סֶף
without payment
Job is using the term silver by association to mean money, since silver was used as money in this culture. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “without paying for it”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / euphemism
וְנֶ֖פֶשׁ בְּעָלֶ֣יהָ הִפָּֽחְתִּי
and,breath owners,its die
This could mean: (1) that as a poetic way of referring to death, Job is speaking of how someone might expire or breathe out breath. He would mean implicitly that he had not even left the people who were farming his land enough crops to live on. Alternate translation: “or caused its masters to die of starvation” (2) that Job had grieved the people who were farming his land by oppressing them, though he had not actually caused them to die. The word translated breath can also mean “soul,” and the word translated expire could mean “sigh.” In that case Job would be using the souls of these farmers to mean the farmers themselves. Alternate translation: “or caused the souls of its masters to sigh” or “or caused its masters to sigh from oppression”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
בְּעָלֶ֣יהָ
owners,its
In this context, the term masters describes people who are farming the land, not people who own it. It could refer to people who were tenants of land that Job owned. In that case, they would likely be sharecropping, that is, growing crops on Job’s land in exchange for giving him a share of the crops. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “its tenants” or “its sharecroppers” or “the people who were farming it”
31:1-40 Job called down curses on himself if he were guilty of the accusations made against him. Except for his mention of idolatry (31:26-27), Job addressed his fidelity to God in terms of the second half of the Ten Commandments, summarized by the command to “love your neighbor as yourself” (Lev 19:18; Rom 13:9).
OET (OET-LV) If her/its_vigor/produce[fn] I_have_eaten not money and_breath owners_its I_have_caused_to_breathe_out.
31:39 Note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
OET (OET-RV) if I’ve eaten what it produces with paying fair wages,
⇔ or I’ve caused the death of its owners,
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.