Job 31:21
If I have swung my hand against the fatherless, because I saw in the gate those that would help me:
Leeser Tanakh
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, and if he have not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
22Then may my shoulder fall from my shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the channel-bone;
Cross References
Job 22:9Widows hast thou sent away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, yea, that had none to help him.
Proverbs 23:10Remove not the ancient landmark, and into the fields of the fatherless must thou not enter;
Ezekiel 22:7Father and mother they esteemed lightly within thee, toward the stranger they acted with extortion in the midst of thee, the fatherless and the widow they oppressed within thee.
Micah 7:3For the evil of your hands you expect good? while the prince demandeth [bribes], and the judge acteth for pay; and the great man is only speaking the wilful pleasure of his soul: and so do they make a network [of wrong].
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 →