Holy Scripture
Job 31:39
A church father on this verse
“If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have afflicted the soul of the tillers thereof. [ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION] For to 'eat the fruit of the land without money' is to receive indeed our charges from the Church, but not to yield to that Church the price of preaching. Of which same preaching it is said…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
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:
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In context
37And if not, tearing it up I would return it, Having taken nothing from the debtor.
38If at any time the land groaned against me, And if its furrows mourned together;
— Job 31:39 —
40Then let the nettle come up to me instead of wheat, And a bramble instead of barley. And Job ceased speaking.