Job 31:17

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 15:11 : 11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
  • Deut 15:14 : 14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: [of that] wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
  • Neh 8:10 : 10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for [this] day [is] holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
  • Job 22:7 : 7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
  • Job 29:12-16 : 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him. 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe and a diadem. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame. 16 I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out.
  • Ezek 18:7 : 7 And hath not oppressed any, [but] hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
  • Ezek 18:16 : 16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, [but] hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
  • Luke 11:41 : 41 ‹But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.›
  • John 13:29 : 29 For some [of them] thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy [those things] that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.
  • Acts 4:32 : 32 ¶ And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any [of them] that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
  • Rom 12:13 : 13 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.
  • 1 John 3:17 : 17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels [of compassion] from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Job 31:18-22
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    80%

    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;)

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

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

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

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

  • Job 29:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

    12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.

    13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

  • Job 22:9
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    9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Job 31:39
    75%

    39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

  • Job 29:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16 I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out.

    17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

  • Job 24:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

    10 They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;

  • Lam 5:3
    73%

    3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.

  • Jer 49:11
    72%

    11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them] alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

  • Ezek 18:16
    72%

    16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, [but] hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,

  • Ps 37:25
    72%

    25 I have been young, and [now] am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

  • Job 22:7
    71%

    7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

  • Ezek 22:7
    71%

    7 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

  • Ps 10:14
    71%

    14 Thou hast seen [it]; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite [it] with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

  • Isa 10:2
    71%

    2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless!

  • Job 6:27
    71%

    27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit] for your friend.

  • Exod 22:22
    71%

    22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

  • Job 31:29-31
    3 verses
    70%

    29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

    30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

    31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

  • Job 31:8
    70%

    8 [Then] let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

  • Job 30:25
    70%

    25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was [not] my soul grieved for the poor?

  • Ezek 18:7
    70%

    7 And hath not oppressed any, [but] hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

  • Prov 23:10
    70%

    10 ¶ Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

  • Prov 13:23
    69%

    23 ¶ Much food [is in] the tillage of the poor: but there is [that is] destroyed for want of judgment.

  • Prov 4:3
    69%

    3 For I was my father's son, tender and only [beloved] in the sight of my mother.

  • Deut 24:17
    69%

    17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, [nor] of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

  • Lev 22:13
    69%

    13 But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.

  • Prov 30:9
    69%

    9 Lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who [is] the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God [in vain].

  • Deut 26:14
    69%

    14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away [ought] thereof for [any] unclean [use], nor given [ought] thereof for the dead: [but] I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, [and] have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.

  • Job 24:3
    69%

    3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

  • Lam 4:4
    69%

    4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, [and] no man breaketh [it] unto them.

  • 2 Sam 12:3
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    3 But the poor [man] had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.

  • Ps 27:10
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    10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

  • Job 31:27
    68%

    27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:

  • Gen 31:38-39
    2 verses
    68%

    38 This twenty years [have] I [been] with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

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  • Ps 14:4
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    4 ¶ Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

  • Job 31:13
    68%

    13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

  • Job 6:7
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    7 The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful meat.

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    18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

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    15 ¶ If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend [against] the generation of thy children.

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    9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,