Job 31:39-40

Contemporary English Version

³⁹Nor have I cheated
my workers
    and caused them pain.^[a]
⁴⁰If I had, I would pray
for weeds instead of wheat
    to grow in my fields.
After saying these things,
    Job was silent.

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Footnotes

31.39 pain: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 39.

Job 31:39-40

New International Version

³⁹if I have devoured its yield without payment^(A)
or broken the spirit of its tenants,^(B)
⁴⁰then let briers^(C) come up instead of wheat
and stinkweed^(D) instead of barley.”