Job 31:16

¹⁴ What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

¹⁵ Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

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;)

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,
KJV: If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
WEB: “If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
ASV: If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
DARBY: If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
BLB: If I have withheld the poor from pleasure and made to fail the eyes of the widow,

ÅB: Har jeg nektet fattigfolk det de ønsket, og latt enkens øyne tæres bort?
OTB: Hvis jeg har nektet de fattige deres ønsker,
Eller fått enken til å miste håpet,
B1930: Har jeg nektet fattigfolk det de ønsket, og latt enkens øine tæres bort?

Deuteronomy 15:7–10
If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
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Isaiah 38:14
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
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Lamentations 4:17
As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
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Deuteronomy 28:32
Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.
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Galatians 2:10
Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
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Psalms 112:9
He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
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Luke 16:21
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
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Acts 11:29
Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judæa:
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