Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,because I saw my help in the gate,
New Heart 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 none to help him,
Proverbs 23:10Do not move the ancient boundary stone.Do not encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
Ezekiel 22:7In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they 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;and 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 →