Job 31:21
If I have lift up my hand against the fatherless, 1 When I saw my help in the gate: 1
KJV Cambridge Paragraph
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 loins have not blessed me, 1 And if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; 1
22Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, 1 And mine arm be broken from the bone. 1
Cross References
Job 22:9Thou hast sent widows away empty, 1 And the arms of the fatherless have been broken. 1
Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor that cried, 1 And the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 1
Proverbs 23:10Remove not the old landmark; 1 And enter not into the fields of the fatherless: 1
Ezekiel 22:7In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Micah 7:3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, 1 The prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; 1 And the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: 1 So they wrap it up. 1
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 →