38. Personification. The complaints of the unjustly ousted proprietors are transferred to the lands themselves ( Job 31:20 ; Genesis 4:10 ; Habakkuk 2:11 ). If I have unjustly acquired lands ( Job 24:2 ; Isaiah 5:8 ). furrows —The specification of these makes it likely, he implies in this, "If I paid not the laborer for tillage "; as Isaiah 5:8- : , "If I paid him not for gathering in the fruits." Thus of the four clauses in Job 31:38 ; Job 31:39 , the first refers to the same subject as the fourth, the second is connected with the third by introverted parallelism. Compare Job 31:39- : , which plainly alludes to this passage: compare "Lord of Sabaoth" with Job 31:26 here. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-39" class="com-number"
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