Job 31:19

What does Job 31:19 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 31:19 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

If I see <FI>any<Fi> perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy,

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;

Context

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);

v.19This passage

v.20If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

Cross references

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

  • James 2:16

    and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit?

  • Job 22:6

    For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, And stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • Matthew 25:36

    naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

  • 1 John 3:18

    My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

  • 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?

  • Matthew 25:43

    I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

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