Job 31:19

Generosity Poverty and the vulnerable Mercy and compassion

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;)

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 have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

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

Compare

BSB: if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,
KJV: If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
WEB: if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
ASV: If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;
DARBY: If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;
BLB: if I have seen one perishing from lack of clothing, or there [being] no covering for the needy,

ÅB: Har jeg kunnet se en ulykkelig uten klær eller en fattig uten et plagg å ha på seg?
OTB: Hvis jeg har sett noen gå til grunne for mangel på klær,
Eller en trengende uten en kappe,
B1930: Har jeg kunnet se en ulykkelig uten klær eller en fattig uten et plagg å ha på sig?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Job 22:6
For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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1 John 3:18
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
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Acts 9:39
Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.
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Matthew 25:36
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
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2 Chronicles 28:15
And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
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Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
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Job 29:13
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
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James 2:16
And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
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