Holy Scripture
Job 31:38
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“"If my land has ever cried out against me, or if its furrows have wept together." Therefore, neither the land cries out nor weeps. What does he mean? Certainly the land does not really groan, but inanimate beings perceive injustices. As the prophet asserts, "The earth stood up and shuddered." Now the earth moans every…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
38If at any time the land groaned against me, And if its furrows mourned together;
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36I would place it as a chaplet on my shoulders, and read it.
37And if not, tearing it up I would return it, Having taken nothing from the debtor.
— Job 31:38 —
39And 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:
40Then let the nettle come up to me instead of wheat, And a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking.