Job 31:22

then may my shoulder fall from its joint, and may my arm, with all its bones, be broken.

Catholic Public Domain 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 over an orphan, even when it might seem to me that I have the advantage over him at the gate;

23For I have always feared God, like waves flowing over me, whose weight I was unable to bear.

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Cross References

Job 31:10then let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lean over her.

Job 38:15From the impious, the light will be taken away, and the exalted arm will be broken.

Psalms 137:6For the Lord is exalted, and he looks with favor on the humble. But the lofty he knows from a distance.

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 →

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