Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand over an orphan, even when it might seem to me that I have the advantage over him at the gate;
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
In Context
20if his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
22then may my shoulder fall from its joint, and may my arm, with all its bones, be broken.
Cross References
Job 22:9You have sent widows away empty, and you have crushed the shoulders of orphans.
Job 29:12This was because I had freed the poor, who cried out, and the orphan, who had no helper.
Proverbs 23:10Do not touch the boundaries of little ones, and do not enter into the field of the fatherless.
Ezekiel 22:7They have abused father and mother within you. The new arrival has been oppressed in your midst. They have grieved the orphan and the widow among you.
Micah 7:3The evil of their hands, they call good. The leader is demanding, and the judge is yielding, and the great is speaking the desire of his soul, and they have confused it.
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 →