Job 31:21
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:
Douay-Rheims 1899
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:
22Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.
Cross References
Job 22:9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.
Job 29:12Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless that had no helper.
Proverbs 23:10Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:
Ezekiel 22:7They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widow in thee.
Micah 7:3The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled 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 →