Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
Berean Standard Bible
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 heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,
22then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.
Cross References
Job 22:9You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
Job 29:12because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
Proverbs 23:10Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
Ezekiel 22:7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
Micah 7:3Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.
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 →