Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;
World English Bible
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 heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;
22then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
Cross References
Job 22:9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 29:12because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
Proverbs 23:10Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
Ezekiel 22:7In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Micah 7:3Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe. The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
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 →