JOB 31:39 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) if I’ve eaten what it produces with paying fair wages,
⇔ or I’ve caused the death of its owners,

31:39 Note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Εἰ δὲ καὶ τὴν ἰσχὺν αὐτῆς ἔφαγον μόνος ἄνευ τιμῆς, εἰ δὲ καὶ ψυχὴν κυρίου τῆς γῆς ἐκλαβὼν ἐλύπησα·
(Ei de kai taʸn isⱪun autaʸs efagon monos aneu timaʸs, ei de kai psuⱪaʸn kuriou taʸs gaʸs eklabōn elupaʸsa; )

BrTr and if I ate its strength alone without price, and if too I grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking aught from him:

ULT if I have eaten its yield without silver
⇔ or caused the breath of its masters to expire,

UST I solemnly declare that I have taken only a fair share of the crops that people have grown on my land.
⇔ I have made sure that the people who grew crops on my land kept enough of them to feed their families.

BSB if I have devoured its produce without payment
⇔ or broken the spirit of its tenants,

OEB If her strength I have drained without cost,
⇔ Or have poured out the life of her owner;

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

WMBB (Same as above)

NET if I have eaten its produce without paying,
⇔ or caused the death of its owners,

LSV If I consumed its strength without money,
And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,

FBV if I have taken its crops without payment or if I have caused harm to the farmers;

T4T or if it were true that I have eaten the crops that grew in someone else’s fields
⇔ without paying for those crops,
⇔ with the result that those farmers who grew those crops died from hunger;

LEB • or[fn] I have caused the breath of its owners to die,

31:? Hebrew “and”

BBE If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

Moff No Moff JOB book available

JPS If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the tillers thereof to be disappointed —

ASV If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money,
⇔ Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

DRA If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the soul of the tillers thereof:

YLT If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,

Drby If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:

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

Wbstr If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life:

KJB-1769 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:[fn][fn]

31.39 fruits: Heb. strength

31.39 the owners…: Heb. the soul of the owners thereof to expire, or, breathe out

KJB-1611 [fn][fn]If I haue eaten the fruits thereof without money, or haue caused the owners thereof to loose their life:
(If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to loose their life:)

31:39 Heb. the strength thereof.

31:39 Heb. caused the soule of the owners therof to expire, or breath out.

Bshps If I haue eaten the fruites therof vnpayed for, yea if I haue greeued the soules of the maisters therof:
(If I have eaten the fruites thereof unpayed for, yea if I have greeued the souls of the masters thereof:)

Gnva If I haue eaten the fruites thereof without siluer: or if I haue grieued the soules of the masters thereof,
(If I have eaten the fruites thereof without silver: or if I have grieved the souls of the masters thereof, )

Cvdl yf I haue eaten the frutes therof vnpayed for, yee yf I haue greued eny of the plow men:
(yf I have eaten the frutes thereof unpayed for, ye/you_all if I have greued any of the plow men:)

Wyc if Y eet fruytis therof with out money, and Y turmentide the soule of erthetileris of it;
(if I eet fruytis thereof with out money, and I turmentide the soul of earthtileris of it;)

Luth hab ich seine Früchte unbezahlt gegessen und das Leben der Ackerleute sauer gemacht,
(hab I his Früchte unbezahlt gegessen and the life the/of_the Ackerleute sauer made,)

ClVg si fructus ejus comedi absque pecunia, et animam agricolarum ejus afflixi:[fn]
(si fructus his comedi without pecunia, and animam agricolarum his afflixi: )

31.39 Si fructus ejus comedi. Qui præest et subest, etc., usque ad a quibus fructus corporeæ servitutis accepit. Animam agricolarum ejus afflixi. Animas agricolarum affligit rector Ecclesiæ, etc., usque ad qui non suam gloriam quærit, ab omnibus vult adjuvari.

31.39 When/But_if fructus his comedi. Who præest and subest, etc., until to from to_whom fructus corporeæ servitutis accepit. Animam agricolarum his afflixi. Animas agricolarum affligit rector Ecclesiæ, etc., until to who not/no his_own gloriam quærit, away to_all vult adyuvari.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

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”

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