Job 31:19
If I see [any] perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
In Context
18(But from my youth He grew up with me as [with] a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)
20If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,
Cross References
2 Chronicles 28:15and the men who have been expressed by name rise and take hold on the captives, and all their naked ones they have clothed from the spoil, yea, they clothe them, and shoe them, and cause them to eat and drink, and anoint them, and lead them on asses, even every feeble one, and bring them in to Jericho, the city of palms, near their brethren, and turn back to Samaria.
Job 24:4They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.
Isaiah 58:7Is it not to deal to the hungry thy bread, And the mourning poor bring home, That thou seest the naked and cover him, And from thine own flesh hide not thyself?
Matthew 25:43a stranger I was, and ye did not receive me; naked, and ye put not around me; infirm, and in prison, and ye did not look after me.
Acts 9:39And Peter having risen, went with them, whom having come, they brought into the upper chamber, and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing coats and garments, as many as Dorcas was making while she was with them.
1 John 3:18My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in 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 →