Job 31:21
If I have waved my hand at the fatherless, || When I see [him] in the gate of my court,
Literal Standard Version
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 from the fleece of my sheep || He does not warm himself,
22Let my shoulder fall from its blade, || And the bone from my arm be broken.
Cross References
Job 22:9You have sent widows away empty, || And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.
Job 29:12For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, || And the fatherless who has no helper.
Proverbs 23:10Do not remove a border of ancient times, || And do not enter into fields of the fatherless,
Ezekiel 22:7They have made light of father and mother in you, || They dealt oppressively to a sojourner in your midst, || They oppressed fatherless and widow in you.
Micah 7:3On the evil [are] both hands to do [it] well, || The prince is asking—also the judge—for repayment, || And the great—he is speaking the mischief of his soul, || And they wrap it up.
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 →