Job 31:16
If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?
17If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:
Cross References
Leviticus 25:35If thy brother be impoverished, and weak of hand, and thou receive him as a stranger and sojourner, and he live with thee,
Deuteronomy 28:32May thy sons and thy daughters be given to another people, thy eyes looking on, and languishing at the sight of them all the day, and may there be no strength in thy hand.
Job 20:19Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.
Psalms 69:3I stick fast in the mire of the deep: and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea: and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.
Proverbs 22:22Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate:
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 →