Job 31:22
then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
In Context
21if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
23For calamity from God is a terror to me, and I can do nothing because of his majesty.
Cross References
Job 31:10then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her.
Job 38:15And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm is broken.
Psalms 137:6Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember thee, if I do not prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.
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 →