Job 31:17

Job chapter 31 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof

King James Version · 1611

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

American Standard Version · 1901

Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof

v.16If I have withheld the poor fromtheirdesire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

v.17This passage

v.18(Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother’s womb);

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Ezekiel 18:16
neither hath wronged any, hath not taken aught to pledge, neither hath taken by robbery, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
Nehemiah 8:10
Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye grieved; for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.
Job 29:12
Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
Acts 4:32
And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and soul: and not oneof themsaid that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Job 22:7
Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, And thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.