Job 31:21
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
King James Version
In Context
20If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
22Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
Cross References
Job 22:9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Proverbs 23:10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Ezekiel 22:7In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Micah 7:3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
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 →