Job 31:19
if I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
In Context
20if his loins have not blessed me, and if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
Cross References
2 Chronicles 28:15And the men who have been mentioned by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all who were naked among them, and dressed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carrie
Job 24:4They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Isaiah 58:7Is it not to deal thy bread to a hungry man, and that thou bring the poor who are cast out to thy house, when thou see a naked man, that thou cover him, and that thou not hide thyself from thine own flesh?
Matthew 25:43I was a stranger, and ye did not take me in, naked, and ye did not clothe me, weak, and in prison, and ye did not come to help me.
Acts 9:39And after rising, Peter went with them, whom, after coming, they brought into the upper chamber. And all the widows stood by him weeping, and exhibiting the coats and garments, as many things as Dorcas made being with them.
1 John 3:18My Little children, we should not love in word, nor with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.
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 →