Job 31:17
or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
In Context
16If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:14Thou shall furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress. As LORD thy God has blessed thee thou shall give to him.
Esther 2:7And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter. For she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was fair and beautiful. And when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.
Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor who cried, also the fatherless who had none to help him.
Ezekiel 18:16nor has wronged any man, has not taken anything to pledge, nor has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to a hungry man, and has covered a naked man with a garment,
John 13:29For some thought, since Judas had the purse, that Jesus said to him, Buy what things we have need of for the feast, or that he should give something to the poor.
Romans 12:13sharing for the needs of the sanctified, pursuing love for strangers.
Matthew Henry on Job 31:17-24
Job's Compassion to the Poor. ( b. c. 1520.) 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; 18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) 19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; 20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; 21 If I… Read the whole commentary →