Job 31:19

If I have seen any one perishing for want of clothing, Or any poor man without covering;

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In The King James Version

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

In Context

18(Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And I have helped the widow from my mother's womb;)

20If his loins have not blessed me, And he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

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Cross References

Job 24:4They push the needy from the way; All the poor of the land are forced to hide themselves.

Isaiah 58:7Is it not to break thy bread to the hungry, And to bring the poor, that are cast out, to thy house? When thou seest the naked, that thou clothe him, And that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

Matthew 25:43I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

Acts 9:39Then Peter arose, and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber; and all the widows came to him weeping, and showing the coats and cloaks which Dorcas made while she was with them.

1 John 3:18My children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

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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