Job 31:16
If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
In Context
15Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?
17If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;
Cross References
Leviticus 25:35And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you.
Deuteronomy 28:32Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything.
Job 20:19Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;
Psalms 69:3\69:2\My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.
Psalms 119:82My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort?
Proverbs 22:22Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:
Matthew Henry on Job 31:10-16
9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; 10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. 11 For this is a heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. 12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. 13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; 14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I… Read the whole commentary →