Job 31:16

Coverdale Bible (1535)

When the poore desyred enythinge at me, haue I denyed it them? Haue I caused ye wyddowe stonde waytinge for me in vayne?

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  • Deut 15:7-9 : 7 Whan one of thy brethre is waxed poore in eny cite within thy londe, which ye LORDE yi God shal geue ye, thou shalt not harden thine hert, ner withdrawe thine hande from thy poore brother: 8 but shalt open thine hande vnto him, and lende him, acordinge as he hath nede. 9 Bewarre, that there be not a poynte of Belial in thine hert, that thou woldest saye: The seuenth yeare, the yeare of Fredome is at honde. For yf thou lokest not fredly vpo thy poore brother, and geuest him nothinge then shall he crye ouer the vnto the LORDE, and it shall be synne vnto the: 10 But thou shalt geue him, and let it not greue thine hert that thou geuest him. For because of it, shall the LORDE thy God blesse the in all thy workes, and in all that thou puttest thine hande vnto.
  • Deut 28:32 : 32 Thy sonnes and thy doughters shalbe geuen vnto another nacion, and thine eyes shal se it, and dase vpon them all the daye longe, and thy hande shal not be able to delyuer them.
  • Job 5:16 : 16 that the poore maye haue hope, & that the mouth of the oppressoure maye be stopped.
  • Job 20:19 : 19 And why? he hath oppressed the poore, and not helped them: houses hath he spoyled, and not buylded them.
  • Job 22:7-9 : 7 To soch as were weery, hast thou geue no water to drynke, thou hast withdrawe bred fro the hungrie: 8 Shulde soch one the as vseth violece, wroge & oppression (doinge all thinges of parcialyte, & hauynge respecte of personnes) dwell in the lode? 9 Thou hast sent wyddowes awaye emptie and oppressed the poore fatherlesse.
  • Ps 69:3 : 3 I am weery of crienge, my throte is drye, my sight fayleth me, for waytinge so longe vpon my God.
  • Ps 112:9 : 9 He hath sparsed abrode, & geue to the poore, his rightuousnes remayneth for euer, his horne shalbe exalted wt honor.
  • Ps 119:82 : 82 Myne eyes loge sore for thy worde, sayege: Oh when wilt thou coforte me?
  • Ps 119:123 : 123 Myne eyes are waysted awaye wt lokynge for thy health, & for ye worde of thy rightuousnesse.
  • Isa 38:14 : 14 Then chatred I like a swalowe, and like a Crane, and mourned as a doue. I lift vp myne eyes in to ye hight: O LORDE, (sayde I) violence is done vnto me, be thou suertie for me.
  • Lam 4:17 : 17 Wherfore yet oure eyes fayle vs, whyle we loke for vayne helpe: seynge we be euer waitynge vpon a people, that can do vs no good,
  • Luke 16:21 : 21 and desyred to be fylled with the crommes, that fell from the riche mans table. Yet came the dogges, and licked his sores.
  • Acts 11:29 : 29 But the disciples cocluded (euery one acordinge to his abylite) to sende an handreachinge vnto ye brethren that were in Iewry:
  • Gal 2:10 : 10 onely that we shulde remebre the poore, which thinge also I was diligent to do.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 31:17-22
    6 verses
    84%

    17 Haue I eaten my porcion alone, that the fatherles hath had no parte with me?

    18 (for mercy grewe vp with me fro my youth, & compassion fro my mothers wombe.)

    19 Haue I sene eny man perish thorow nakednes & want of clothinge? Or, eny poore man for lack of rayment,

    20 whose sydes thanked me not, because he was warmed wt ye woll of my shepe?

    21 Dyd I euer lyft vp my honde to hurte the fatherlesse? Yee in the gate where I sawe my self to be in auctorite:

    22 The let myne arme fall fro my shulder, & myne arme holes be broken from the ioyntes.

  • Job 29:12-13
    2 verses
    77%

    12 For I delyuered ye poore whe he cried, & the fatherlesse yt wanted helpe.

    13 He yt shulde haue bene lost, gaue me a good worde, & ye widdowes hert praised me.

  • 9 Thou hast sent wyddowes awaye emptie and oppressed the poore fatherlesse.

  • 25 Dyd not I wepe in ye tyme of trouble? Had not my soule copassion vpo ye poore?

  • 2 wherthorow the poore are oppressed, on euery syde, and the innocetes of my people are there with robbed of iudgment: that wyddowes maye be youre praye, and that ye maye robbe the fatherlesse.

  • Job 31:13-15
    3 verses
    76%

    13 Dyd I euer thynke scorne to do right vnto my seruautes and maydens, when they had eny matter agaynst me?

    14 But seynge that God wil sytt in iudgment, what shal I do? And for so moch as he wil nedes vyset me, what answere shal I geue him?

    15 He that fashioned me in my mothers wombe, made he not him also? were we not both shappen alyke in oure mothers bodies?

  • Job 31:38-39
    2 verses
    75%

    38 But yf case be that my londe crie agaynst me, or yt the forowes therof make eny complaynte:

    39 yf I haue eaten the frutes therof vnpayed for, yee yf I haue greued eny of the plow men:

  • 16 I was a father vnto the poore, & whe I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligetly.

  • 21 For they manteyne the baren, & make them yt they can not beare, & vnto wyddowes they do no good.

  • 11 Thou shalt leaue thy fatherlesse children behinde the, and I will kepe them and thy wydowes shall take their comforth in me.

  • 7 To soch as were weery, hast thou geue no water to drynke, thou hast withdrawe bred fro the hungrie:

  • Job 31:7-9
    3 verses
    72%

    7 Yf so be that I haue withdrawen my fote out of the right waye, yf my hert hath folowed myne eyesight, yf I haue stayned or defyled my hodes:

    8 O then is it reason that I sowe, and another eate: yee that my generacion and posterite be clene roted out.

    9 Yf my hert hath lusted after my neghbours wife, or yf I haue layed wayte at his dore:

  • Job 31:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24 Haue I put my trust in golde? Or, haue I sayde to the fynest golde of all: thou art my cofidence?

    25 Haue I reioysed because my substaunce was greate, and because my honde gat so moch?

  • 10 because it shut not vp the wombe that bare me, ner hyd these sorowes fro myne eyes.

  • 16 Who so doth a poore man wronge to increase his owne riches, geueth (comoly) vnto the rich, and at the last commeth to pouerte himself.

  • 31 He that doth a poore man wroge, blasphemeth his maker: but who so hath pitie of the poore, doth honoure vnto God.

  • 16 that the poore maye haue hope, & that the mouth of the oppressoure maye be stopped.

  • 9 Lest yf I be to full, I denye ye, & saye: what felowe is ye LORDE? And lest I beinge constrayned thorow pouerte, fall vnto stealinge, and forsweare the name of my God.

  • 9 With yi mouth defende ye thinge yt is laufull and right, and ye cause of ye poore and helplesse.

  • 16 O that I vtterly had no beynge, or were as a thige borne out of tyme (that is put asyde) ether as yonge children, which neuer sawe the light.

  • 9 They spoyle the suckinge fatherlesse children, and put the poore in preson:

  • 18 Wherfore hast thou brought me out of my mothers wombe? O that I had perished, & that no eye had sene me.

  • Job 31:29-30
    2 verses
    71%

    29 Haue I euer reioysed at the hurte of myne enemy? Or, was I euer glad, yt eny harme happened vnto him? Oh no,

    30 I neuer suffred my mouth to do soch a sinne, as to wysh him euell.

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    22 Ye shall truble no wyddowe ner fatherlesse childe.

    23 Yf thou shalt trouble them, they shall crie vnto me, and I shall heare their crye:

  • 3 We are become carefull and fatherlesse, and oure mothers are as the wydowes.

  • 9 Thou hast not delyuered me ouer in to the hodes of the enemie, but hast set my fete in a large rowme.

  • Job 31:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 I made a couenaunt wt myne eyes, yt I wolde not loke vpo a dasell.

    2 For how greate a porcio shal I haue of God fro aboue? & what enheritauce fro ye Almightie on hie?

  • 13 Am I able to helpe my self? Is not my strength gone fro me,

  • 27 Hath my hert medled priuely wt eny disceate? Or, dyd I euer kysse myne owne honde

  • 16 Yf eny man or woman that beleueth haue wedowes, let them make prouysion for the, and let not the congregacion be charged: that they which are righte wedowes, maye haue ynough.

  • 3 that dryue awaye the asse of the fatherlesse: that take ye wyddowes oxe for a pledge:

  • 16 Yee when he helped ye oppressed and poore to their right, then prospered he well. From whence came this, but only because he had me before his eyes? saieth the LORDE.

  • 15 Yee I had allmost also sayde euen as they: but lo, then shulde I haue condemned the generacion of thy children.

  • 14 This thou seist, for thou considrest the mysery and sorowe: The poore geueth himselff ouer in to thy hande, and committeth him vnto the, for thou art the helper of the frendlesse.

  • 27 He that geueth vnto the poore, shal not wante: but he that turneth awaye his eyes from soch as be in necessite, shall suffre greate pouerte himself.