Job 31:22

if those things were true about me, I hope/desire that my shoulder blade would be torn out and my arm be torn from my shoulder.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

In Context

21or if it were true that I threatened to strike any orphan because I knew that the elders at the city gates would ◄decide in my favor►;

23I always feared that God would cause me to experience a great disaster if I did any of those evil things, and I would not have been able to endure the powerful things that he would do to punish me.

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Cross References

Job 31:10I hope/desire that my wife will become the servant/slave of another man and have sex [EUP] with him.

Job 38:15When it becomes daylight, the wicked do not have the darkness that they like; in the daylight they no longer are able to raise up their arms, ready to hurt people.

Psalms 137:6Do not allow me to sing again [MTY], if I forget about Jerusalem, if I do not consider that Jerusalem causes me to be more joyful than anything else does.

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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