Job 31:19

If ever I saw any one perishing for want of clothing, or the needy without covering:

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

18(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as though we were of one father, and I have guided her [as though she was sprung] from my mother's womb;)

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

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:15And then arose the men who have been expressed by name, and took hold of the captives, and all that were naked among them they clothed from the booty; and they gave them garments and shoes, 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, near their brethren; and then did they return to Samaria.

Job 24:4They chase the needy out of the highway: altogether hide themselves the poor of the earth.

Isaiah 58:7Is it not to distribute thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the afflicted poor into thy house! when thou seest the naked, that thou clothe him; and that thou hide not thyself from thy 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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