Protestantism
English
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:12
- fruits: Heb. strength
- the owners…: Heb. the soul of the owners thereof to expire, or, breathe out
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
If its strength I consumed without money, And the life of its possessors, I have caused to breathe out,
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:
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 fruits of it without money, or have caused the owners of it to lose their lives,
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the tillers thereof to be disappointed--
if I ate of its strength without money or have afflicted the soul of its owners;
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
if I have eaten its yield without payment, or1 I have caused the breath of its owners to die,
- Hebrew “and”
if I have eaten its strength without silver, or have caused its owner to expire;
if I have eaten its strength without silver, or have caused its owner to expire,
if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
If I have eaten of its fruits without payment, And wrung out the life of its owners,
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:12
- fruits: Heb. strength.
- the owners…: Heb. the soul of the owners thereof to expire, or, breathe out.
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
If, the strength thereof, I used to eat, without payment, and, the soul of the holders thereof, I made groan;
If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life:12
- fruits: Heb. strength
- the owners...: Heb. the soul of the owners thereof to expire, or, breathe out
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
Catholicism
English
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the son of the tillers thereof:
if I have used its fruits for nothing but money and have afflicted the souls of its tillers,1
- 31:39This verse does not say: ‘if I have eaten of its fruits without money,’ but rather: ‘if I have used its fruits for nothing except money.’ The first translation does not make any sense. The second translation makes sense and fits with the theme of this part of the Book of Job, wherein Job lists the faults he doesn’t have. The word ‘comedi’ can refer to eating, but it can also refer to other kinds of consuming or the using of something. The word ‘absque’ can be translated as ‘without,’ but it can also mean ‘except for’ or ‘nothing but.’ Job is saying that it would be a sin to use the land as nothing but a source of money for himself.(Conte)