Job 31:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

Job 31:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 22:9
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 29:12
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Jeremiah 5:28
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Micah 7:3
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
Job 6:27
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Alms Beggars Conscience Conscientiousness Faith Family Fatherless

Commentary

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

(vv. 16-23)

Eliphaz had particularly charged Job with unmercifulness to the poor (Job 22:6-9): Thou hast withholden bread from the hungry, stripped the naked of their clothing, and sent widows away empty. One would think he could not have been so very positive and express in his charge unless there had been some truth in it, some ground, for it; and yet it appears, by Job’s protestation, that it was utterly f…

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

(vv. 21)

13-23. Job affirms his freedom from unfairness towards his servants, from harshness and oppression towards the needy. despise the cause--refused to do them justice.