Job 31:19
if I have looked down on him who was perishing because he had no clothing and the poor without any covering,
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
In Context
18(for from my infancy mercy grew with me, and it came out with me from my mother’s womb;)
20if his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
Cross References
2 Chronicles 28:15And the men, whom we mentioned above, rose up and took the captives. All those who were naked, they clothed from the spoils. And when they had clothed them, and had given them shoes, and had refreshed them with food and drink, and had anointed them because of the hardship, and had cared for them, whoever was not able to walk and whoever was feeble in body, they set them upon beasts of burden, and they led them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers, and they themselves returned to Samaria.
Job 24:4They have undermined the way of the poor, and have pressed together the meek of the earth.
Isaiah 58:7Break your bread with the hungry, and lead the destitute and the homeless into your house. When you see someone naked, cover him, and do not despise your own flesh.
Matthew 25:43I was a stranger and you did not take me in; naked, and you did not cover me; sick and in prison, and you did not visit me.’
Acts 9:39Then Peter, rising up, went with them. And when he had arrived, they led him to an upper room. And all the widows were standing around him, weeping and showing him the tunics and garments that Dorcas had made for them.
1 John 3:18My little sons, let us not love in words only, but in works 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 →