Job 31:19
If I haue seene any perish for want of clothing, or any poore without couering,
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
In Context
20If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe,
Cross References
2 Chronicles 28:15And the men that were named by name, rose vp and tooke the prisoners, and with the spoyle clothed all that were naked among them, and arayed them, and shod them, and gaue them meate, and gaue them drinke, and anoynted them, and caryed all that were feeble of them vpon asses, and brought them to Iericho the citie of Palme trees to their brethren: so they returned to Samaria.
Job 24:4They make the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hide themselues together.
Isaiah 58:7Is it not to deale thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poore that wander, vnto thine house? when thou seest the naked, that thou couer him, and hide not thy selfe from thine owne flesh?
Matthew 25:43I was a stranger, and ye tooke me not in vnto you: I was naked, and ye clothed me not: sicke, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Acts 9:39Then Peter arose and came with them: and when hee was come, they brought him into the vpper chamber, where all the widowes stoode by him weeping, and shewing the coates and garments, which Dorcas made, while she was with them.
1 John 3:18My litle children, let vs not loue in worde, neither in tongue onely, but in deede and in trueth.
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 →