Job 31:22

Then may my shoulder fall from my shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the channel-bone;

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

In Context

21If I have swung my hand against the fatherless, because I saw in the gate those that would help me:

23For dreaded by me was the calamitous punishment of God, and against his highness I can accomplish nothing.

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Cross References

Job 31:10Then may my wife labor at the mill for another, and may strangers ill-use her;

Job 38:15And from the wicked is their light withdrawn, and the high-raised arm is broken.

Psalms 137:6May my tongue cleave to my palate if I do not remember thee: if I recall not Jerusalem at the head of my joy.

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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