Job 31:22
[Then] let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone!
Darby Translation
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 an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:
23For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless.
Cross References
Job 31:10Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
Job 38:15And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the uplifted arm is broken.
Psalms 137:6If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to my palate: if I prefer not 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 →