Job 31:21
If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in [him] the gate of my court,
Young's Literal Translation
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 loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,
22My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.
Cross References
Job 22:9Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.
Job 29:12For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.
Proverbs 23:10Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,
Ezekiel 22:7Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee.
Micah 7:3On the evil [are] both hands to do [it] well, The prince is asking — also the judge — for recompence, And the great — he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And 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 →