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 · 2000If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;
KJV
King James Version · 1611If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862If I see <FI>any<Fi> perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;
Context
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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