Job 31:16
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
In Context
15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
17Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;
Cross References
Leviticus 25:35And if your brother be becoming poor, and fallen in decay with you; then you shall relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with you.
Deuteronomy 28:32Your sons and your daughters shall be given unto another people, and yours eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long; and there shall be no might in yours hand.
Job 20:19Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away an house which he built not;
Psalms 69:3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Psalms 119:82Mine eyes fail for your word, saying, When will you comfort me?
Proverbs 22:22Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Matthew Henry on Job 31:10-16
9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; 10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. 11 For this is a heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. 12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. 13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; 14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I… Read the whole commentary →