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Job 31

Job 31:38 KJV (With Strong’s)

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If my land
'adamah (Hebrew #127)
soil (from its general redness)
KJV usage: country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
Pronounce: ad-aw-maw'
Origin: from 119
cry
za`aq (Hebrew #2199)
to shriek (from anguish or danger); by analogy, (as a herald) to announce or convene publicly
KJV usage: assemble, call (together), (make a) cry (out), come with such a company, gather (together), cause to be proclaimed.
Pronounce: zaw-ak'
Origin: a primitive root
against me, or that the furrows
telem (Hebrew #8525)
a bank or terrace
KJV usage: furrow, ridge.
Pronounce: teh'-lem
Origin: from an unused root meaning to accumulate
likewise
yachad (Hebrew #3162)
properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly
KJV usage: alike, at all (once), both, likewise, only, (al-)together, withal.
Pronounce: yakh'-ad
Origin: from 3161
thereof ψcomplain
bakah (Hebrew #1058)
to weep; generally to bemoan
KJV usage: X at all, bewail, complain, make lamentation, X more, mourn, X sore, X with tears, weep.
Pronounce: baw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root
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weep.

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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cry.
Job 20:27• 27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him. (Job 20:27)
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Hab. 2:11• 11For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. (Hab. 2:11)
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James 5:4• 4Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. (James 5:4)
complain.
Heb. weep.
Psa. 65:13• 13The meadows are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, yea, they sing. (Psa. 65:13)
• His very land a witness for him (vers. 38-40). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)
• He appeals to his land to bear witness if he has acquired it unjustly, or used its yield as his own which belonged to another; if he has taken away property from another (as Ahab took the vineyard and life of Naboth), let the very furrows weep out their charge, let the fertile soil yield thistles instead of wheat, tares instead of barley. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together;