Job 31:22
Let my shoulder fall from its blade, || And the bone from my arm be broken.
Literal Standard Version
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 waved my hand at the fatherless, || When I see [him] in the gate of my court,
23For calamity [from] God [is] a dread to me, || And because of His excellence I am not able.
Cross References
Job 31:10Let my wife grind to another, || And let others bend over her.
Job 38:15And their light is withheld from the wicked, || And the arm lifted up is broken.
Psalms 137:6My tongue cleaves to my palate, || If I do not remember you, || If I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief 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 →