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Job 31:16-23

What meaning of the job 31:16-23 in the Bible?

What does Job 31:16-23 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.

  • Job 31:16

    If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

  • Job 31:17

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

  • Job 31:18

    (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

  • Job 31:19

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

  • Job 31:20

    If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

  • Job 31:21

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

  • Job 31:22

    Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.b

  • Job 31:23

    For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

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