Job 31:19

If I saw one perishing for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

In Context

18Surely, from my youth, he grew up to me, as to a father, and, from my birth, I acted as guide to her:

20If his loins did not bless me, or if, with the fleece of my lambs, he did not warm himself;

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:15Then rose up the men who have been expressed by name—and took the captives, and, all who were naked among them, clothed they out of the spoil, and arrayed them and sandalled them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and conducted them with asses for every one that was exhausted, and brought them to Jericho the city of palm-trees, near unto their brethren,—and then returned to Samaria.

Job 24:4They turn aside the needy out of the way, at once, are the humbled of the land made to hide themselves.

Isaiah 58:7Is it not to break unto the hungry, thy bread, And the thrust-out oppressed, that thou bring into a home,—When thou seest one naked, that thou cover him, And from thine own flesh, shalt not hide thyself?

Matthew 25:43A stranger, was I, and ye took me not home, naked, and ye clothed me not, sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

Acts 9:39And Peter, arising, went with them,—whom, when he arrived, they brought up into the upper room; and there stood by him all the widows, weeping, and showing the tunics and mantles—whatsoever things Dorcas was making while she was with them.

1 John 3:18Dear children! Let us not be loving in word, nor yet with the tongue, but in deed and truth.

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 →

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