Job 31:22
Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:
23For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was not able to bear.
Cross References
Job 31:10Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.
Job 38:15From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken.
Psalms 137:6Who established the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.
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 →