Job 31:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

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  • Deut 15:7-9 : 7 If in any of your towns in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, there is a poor man, one of your countrymen, do not let your heart be hard or your hand shut to him; 8 But let your hand be open to give him the use of whatever he is in need of. 9 And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you. 10 But it is right for you to give to him, without grief of heart: for because of this, the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all your work and on everything to which you put your hand.
  • Deut 28:32 : 32 Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything.
  • Job 5:16 : 16 So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped.
  • Job 20:19 : 19 Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;
  • Job 22:7-9 : 7 You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread. 8 For it was the man with power who had the land, and the man with an honoured name who was living in it. 9 You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.
  • Ps 69:3 : 3 I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.
  • Ps 112:9 : 9 He has given with open hands to the poor; his righteousness is for ever; his horn will be lifted up with honour.
  • Ps 119:82 : 82 My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort?
  • Ps 119:123 : 123 My eyes are wasted with desire for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.
  • Isa 38:14 : 14 I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.
  • Lam 4:17 : 17 Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.
  • Luke 16:21 : 21 Desiring the broken bits of food which came from the table of the man of wealth; and even the dogs came and put their tongues on his wounds.
  • Acts 11:29 : 29 And the disciples, everyone as he was able, made a decision to send help to the brothers living in Judaea:
  • Gal 2:10 : 10 Only it was their desire that we would give thought to the poor; which very thing I had much in mind to do.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 31:17-22
    6 verses
    84%

    17If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;

    18(For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)

    19If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;

    20If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;

    21If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

    22May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.

  • Job 29:12-13
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    77%

    12For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.

    13The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.

  • Job 22:9
    77%

    9You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

  • Job 30:25
    76%

    25Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?

  • Isa 10:2
    76%

    2Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

  • Job 31:13-15
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    76%

    13If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

    14What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?

    15Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?

  • Job 31:38-39
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    75%

    38If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;

    39If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

  • Job 29:16
    74%

    16I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.

  • Job 24:21
    73%

    21He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.

  • Jer 49:11
    72%

    11Put in my care your children who have no father, and I will keep them safe; and let your widows put their faith in me.

  • Job 22:7
    72%

    7You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.

  • Job 31:7-9
    3 verses
    72%

    7If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

    8Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.

    9If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;

  • Job 31:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24If I made gold my hope, or if I ever said to the best gold, I have put my faith in you;

    25If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;

  • Job 3:10
    72%

    10Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

  • Prov 22:16
    72%

    16He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.

  • Prov 14:31
    72%

    31He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.

  • Job 5:16
    72%

    16So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped.

  • Prov 30:9
    72%

    9For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.

  • Prov 31:9
    72%

    9Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.

  • Job 3:16
    71%

    16Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

  • Job 24:9
    71%

    9The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

  • Job 10:18
    71%

    18Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

  • Job 31:29-30
    2 verses
    71%

    29If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

    30(For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)

  • Exod 22:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.

    23If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear;

  • Lam 5:3
    71%

    3We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.

  • Ps 31:9
    71%

    9Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

  • Job 31:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?

    2For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?

  • Job 6:13
    70%

    13I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.

  • Job 31:27
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    27A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;

  • 1 Tim 5:16
    70%

    16If any woman of the faith has relations who are widows, let her give them help, so that the care of them does not come on the church, and so it may give help to those who are truly widowed.

  • Job 24:3
    70%

    3They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.

  • Jer 22:16
    70%

    16He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.

  • Ps 73:15
    70%

    15If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.

  • Ps 10:14
    70%

    14You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.

  • Prov 28:27
    70%

    27He who gives to the poor will never be in need, but great curses will be on him who gives no attention to them.