Job 22:7
5 Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
6 For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,
8 while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it.
9 You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,
- KJV
- Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
- WEB
- You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
- ASV
- Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, And thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
- DARBY
- Thou hast not given water to the fainting to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
- BLB
- You have not quenched with water the weary, and from the hungry you have withheld bread.
- ÅB
- Du gav ikke den trette vann å drikke, og den sultne nektet du brød.
- OTB
- Du har unnlatt å gi vann til den trette,
og du har nektet brød til den sultne. - B1930
- Du gav ikke den trette vann å drikke, og den sultne nektet du brød.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 31:17
if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—
Read in contextIsaiah 58:7
Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
Read in contextMatthew 25:42
For I was hungry and you gave Me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink,
Read in contextEzekiel 18:16
He does not oppress another, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
Read in contextEzekiel 18:7
He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
Read in contextProverbs 19:17
Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 15:7–11
If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.
Read in contextProverbs 11:24–25
One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.
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