Job 31:19
If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 up 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, and with the spoils clothed all them that were naked: and when they had clothed and shed them, and refreshed them with meat and drink, and anointed them because of their labour, and had taken care of them, they set such of them as could not walk, and were feeble, upon beasts, and brought them to Jericho the city of palm trees to their brethren, and they returned to Samaria.
Job 24:4They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth.
Isaiah 58:7Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own flesh.
Matthew 25:43I was a stranger, and you took me not in: naked, and you covered me not: sick and in prison, and you did not visit me.
Acts 9:39And Peter rising up, went with them. And when he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber. And all the widows stood about him weeping, and shewing him the coats and garments which Dorcas made them.
1 John 3:18My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, 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 →