Job 31:16
If I withhold the poor from pleasure, || And consume the eyes of the widow,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
In Context
15Did He that made me in the womb not make him? Indeed, One prepares us in the womb.
17And I eat my morsel by myself, || And the orphan has nothing [to] eat of it,
Cross References
Leviticus 25:35And when your brother has become poor, and his hand has failed with you, then you have kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he has lived with you;
Deuteronomy 28:32Your sons and your daughters [are] given to another people, and your eyes are looking and consumed for them all the day, but your hand is not to God!
Job 20:19For he oppressed—he forsook the poor, || He has taken a house away violently, || And he does not build it.
Psalms 69:3I have been wearied with my calling, || My throat has been burned, || My eyes have been consumed, waiting for my God.
Psalms 119:82My eyes have been consumed for Your word, || Saying, “When does it comfort me?”
Proverbs 22:22Do not rob the poor because he [is] poor, || And do not bruise the afflicted in the gate.
Matthew Henry on Job 31:10-16
9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; 10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. 11 For this is a heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. 12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. 13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; 14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I… Read the whole commentary →