Job 31:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 15:11 : 11 For there will never be a time when there are no poor in the land; and so I give orders to you, Let your hand be open to your countrymen, to those who are poor and in need in your land.
  • Deut 15:14 : 14 But give him freely from your flock and from your grain and your wine: in the measure of the wealth which the Lord your God has given you, you are to give to him.
  • Neh 8:10 : 10 Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.
  • Job 22:7 : 7 You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.
  • Job 29:12-16 : 12 For 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. 13 The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart. 14 I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking. 16 I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
  • Ezek 18:7 : 7 And has done no wrong to any, but has given back to the debtor what is his, and has taken no one's goods by force, and has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;
  • Ezek 18:16 : 16 Or done wrong to any, or taken anything from one in his debt, or taken goods by force, but has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;
  • Luke 11:41 : 41 But if you give to the poor such things as you are able, then all things are clean to you.
  • John 13:29 : 29 Some were of the opinion that because Judas kept the money-bag Jesus said to him, Get the things we have need of for the feast; or, that he was to give something to the poor.
  • Acts 4:32 : 32 And all those who were of the faith were one in heart and soul: and not one of them said that any of the things which he had was his property only; but they had all things in common.
  • Rom 12:13 : 13 Giving to the needs of the saints, ready to take people into your houses.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.
  • 1 John 3:17 : 17 But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 31:16
    84%

    16If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

  • Job 31:18-22
    5 verses
    80%

    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
    2 verses
    76%

    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
    76%

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

  • Job 31:39
    75%

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

  • Job 29:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

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

    17By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.

  • Job 24:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

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

    10Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

  • Lam 5:3
    73%

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

  • 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.

  • Ezek 18:16
    72%

    16Or done wrong to any, or taken anything from one in his debt, or taken goods by force, but has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;

  • Ps 37:25
    72%

    25I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread.

  • Job 22:7
    71%

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

  • Ezek 22:7
    71%

    7In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.

  • Ps 10:14
    71%

    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.

  • Isa 10:2
    71%

    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 6:27
    71%

    27Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.

  • Exod 22:22
    71%

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

  • Job 31:29-31
    3 verses
    70%

    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;)

    31If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?

  • Job 31:8
    70%

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

  • Job 30:25
    70%

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

  • Ezek 18:7
    70%

    7And has done no wrong to any, but has given back to the debtor what is his, and has taken no one's goods by force, and has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;

  • Prov 23:10
    70%

    10Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;

  • Prov 13:23
    69%

    23There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.

  • Prov 4:3
    69%

    3For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother.

  • Deut 24:17
    69%

    17Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:

  • Lev 22:13
    69%

    13But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or parted from her husband, and has no child, and has come back to her father's house as when she was a girl, she may take of her father's bread; but no outside person may do so.

  • Prov 30:9
    69%

    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.

  • Deut 26:14
    69%

    14No part of these things has been used for food in a time of weeping, or put away when I was unclean, or given for the dead: I have given ear to the voice of the Lord my God, and have done all you have given me orders to do.

  • Job 24:3
    69%

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

  • Lam 4:4
    69%

    4The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.

  • 2 Sam 12:3
    68%

    3But the poor man had only one little she-lamb, which he had got and taken care of: from its birth it had been with him like one of his children; his meat was its food, and from his cup it took its drink, resting in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.

  • Ps 27:10
    68%

    10When my father and my mother are turned away from me, then the Lord will be my support.

  • Job 31:27
    68%

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

  • Gen 31:38-39
    2 verses
    68%

    38These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food.

    39Anything which was wounded by beasts I did not take to you, but myself made up for the loss of it; you made me responsible for whatever was taken by thieves, by day or by night.

  • Ps 14:4
    68%

    4Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

  • Job 31:13
    68%

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

  • Job 6:7
    68%

    7My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.

  • Ps 10:18
    68%

    18To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.

  • Ps 73:15
    68%

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

  • Ps 102:9
    68%

    9I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping: