Job 31:21
If I haue lift vp mine hande against the fatherlesse, when I saw that I might helpe him in the gate,
Geneva Bible 1599
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 loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe,
22Let mine arme fal from my shoulder, and mine arme be broken from the bone.
Cross References
Job 22:9Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, and the armes of the fatherles were broken.
Job 29:12For I deliuered the poore that cryed, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him.
Proverbs 23:10Remooue not the ancient boundes, and enter not into the fieldes of the fatherlesse.
Ezekiel 22:7In thee haue they despised father and mother: in the middes of thee haue they oppressed the stranger: in thee haue they vexed the fatherlesse and the widowe.
Micah 7:3To make good for the euil of their hands, the prince asked, and the iudge iudgeth for a reward: therefore the great man he speaketh out the corruption of his soule: so they wrapt it vp.
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 →