Devine Scripture

Job 31:21

Job chapter 31 · verse 21 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

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

v.21This passage

v.22Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.

Cross references

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

  • Job 29:12

    Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.

  • Jeremiah 5:28

    They are waxed fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

  • Job 24:9

    There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;

  • Proverbs 23:10

    Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

  • Job 22:9

    Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Micah 7:3

    Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge is ready for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the evil desire of his soul: thus they weave it together.