Job 31:22
let then my shoulder start from the blade-bone, and my arm be crushed off from the elbow.
Brenton Septuagint
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 lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior to his:
23For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I cannot bear up by reason of his burden.
Cross References
Job 31:10then let my wife also please another, and let my children be brought low.
Job 38:15And hast thou removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud?
Psalms 137:6For the Lord is high, and yet regards the lowly; and he knows high things from afar off.
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 →