Job 31:19
And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him; 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
In Context
18(For I nourished them as a father from my youth, 1 And guided them from my mother’s womb). 1
Cross References
2 Chronicles 28:15And the men who were called by name rose up, and took hold of the prisoners, and clothed all the naked from the spoils, and gave them garments and shoes, and gave them food to eat, and oil to anoint themselves with, and they helped also everyone that was weak with asses, and placed them in Jericho, the city of palm trees, with their brethren; and they returned to Samaria.
Job 24:4They have turned aside the weak from the right way: 1 And the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together. 1
Isaiah 58:7Break thy bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to thy house: if thou seest one naked, clothe him, and thou shalt not disregard the relations of thine own seed.
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 →