Job 31:16 · KJV
“If I have withheld the poor from {their} desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;”
— Job 31:16
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? {did not one...: or, did he not fashion us in one womb?}
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
Job 31 — Context
What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? {did not one...: or, did he not fashion us in one womb?}
16If I have withheld the poor from {their} desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
17Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
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;) {her: that is, the widow}
Cross References
Isaiah 38:14
Like a crane {or} a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail {with looking} upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. {undertake...: or, ease me}
Deuteronomy 15:7-10
If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
Job 5:16
So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
Galatians 2:10
Only {they would} that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
Job 20:19
Because he hath oppressed {and} hath forsaken the poor; {because} he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; {oppressed: Heb. crushed}
Psalms 119:82
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
Psalms 119:123
Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
Psalms 69:3
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.