Job 31:19

If I have seen any wanderer in want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

In Context

18Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have been her guide from my mother's womb.

20If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:15And the men that have been mentioned by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm-trees, unto their brethren; then they returned to Samaria.

Job 24:4They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Isaiah 58:7Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him, and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

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 →

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