Job 22:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

Job 22:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 31:17
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
Matthew 25:42
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
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?
Ezekiel 18:16
Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
Ezekiel 18:7
And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Alms Beggars Philanthropy Poor Selfishness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-14)

Eliphaz and his companions had condemned Job, in general, as a wicked man and a hypocrite; but none of them had descended to particulars, nor drawn up any articles of impeachment against him, until Eliphaz did so here, where he positively and expressly charges him with many high crimes and misdemeanours, which, if he had really been guilty of them, might well have justified them in their harsh cen…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. Hospitality to the weary traveller is regarded in the East as a primary duty (Is 21:14).