Job 31:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

Or have eaten my portion alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it;

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  • Deut 15:11 : 11 For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command you, saying, you shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor, and to your needy, in your land.
  • Deut 15:14 : 14 You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress: of that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
  • Neh 8:10 : 10 Then he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared, for this day is holy to our Lord; do not be sad, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
  • Job 22:7 : 7 You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
  • Job 29:12-16 : 12 Because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless, and the one who had no helper. 13 The blessing of a dying man came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a crown. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. 16 I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the case I did not know.
  • Ezek 18:7 : 7 And has not oppressed anyone, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has spoiled none by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,
  • Ezek 18:16 : 16 Nor has oppressed anyone, has not withheld the pledge, nor spoiled by violence, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,
  • Luke 11:41 : 41 But rather give alms of such things as you have; and behold, all things are clean to you.
  • John 13:29 : 29 For some thought, because Judas had the money bag, that Jesus had said to him, Buy those things we need for the feast, or that he should give something to the poor.
  • Acts 4:32 : 32 Now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul; neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.
  • Rom 12:13 : 13 Distributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
  • 1 John 3:17 : 17 But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 31:16
    84%

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

  • Job 31:18-22
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    80%

    18(For from my youth he was raised with me as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

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

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

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

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

  • Job 29:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

    12Because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless, and the one who had no helper.

    13The blessing of a dying man came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

  • Job 22:9
    76%

    9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Job 31:39
    75%

    39If I have eaten its fruits without payment, or caused the owners to lose their life;

  • Job 29:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the case I did not know.

    17And I broke the fangs of the wicked, and plucked the victim from his teeth.

  • Job 24:9-10
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    73%

    9They snatch the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge from the poor.

    10They make him go naked without clothing and take away the sheaf from the hungry;

  • Lam 5:3
    73%

    3We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

  • Jer 49:11
    72%

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

  • Ezek 18:16
    72%

    16Nor has oppressed anyone, has not withheld the pledge, nor spoiled by violence, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,

  • Ps 37:25
    72%

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

  • Job 22:7
    71%

    7You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

  • Ezek 22:7
    71%

    7In you they have treated father and mother with contempt: in your midst they have dealt oppressively with the stranger: in you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

  • Ps 10:14
    71%

    14You have seen it; for You behold mischief and spite, to repay it with Your hand; the poor commits himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

  • Isa 10:2
    71%

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

  • Job 6:27
    71%

    27Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.

  • Exod 22:22
    71%

    22You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

  • Job 31:29-31
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    70%

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

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

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

  • Job 31:8
    70%

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

  • Job 30:25
    70%

    25Did I not weep for those in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

  • Ezek 18:7
    70%

    7And has not oppressed anyone, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has spoiled none by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,

  • Prov 23:10
    70%

    10Do not remove the ancient landmark, and do not enter the fields of the fatherless:

  • Prov 13:23
    69%

    23Much food is in the tillage of the poor, but there is that which is destroyed for lack of judgment.

  • Prov 4:3
    69%

    3For I was my father's son, tender and dearly loved in the sight of my mother.

  • Deut 24:17
    69%

    17You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as a pledge:

  • Lev 22:13
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    13But if the priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food: but no stranger shall eat thereof.

  • Prov 30:9
    69%

    9Lest I be full and deny You, 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%

    14I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I taken away any of it for any unclean use, nor given any of it for the dead: but I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that you have commanded me.

  • Job 24:3
    69%

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

  • Lam 4:4
    69%

    4The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask for bread, and no one breaks it for them.

  • 2 Sam 12:3
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    3But the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nurtured: it grew up with him and with his children; it ate of his own food, drank from his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and it was like a daughter to him.

  • Ps 27:10
    68%

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

  • Job 31:27
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    27And my heart was secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand:

  • Gen 31:38-39
    2 verses
    68%

    38These twenty years have I been with you; your ewes and your she goats have not miscarried, and the rams of your flock have I not eaten.

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  • Ps 14:4
    68%

    4Do all the workers of iniquity have no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the LORD?

  • Job 31:13
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    13If I have despised the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they contended with me;

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    7The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful food.

  • Ps 10:18
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    18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may oppress no more.

  • Ps 73:15
    68%

    15If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I would offend against the generation of Your children.

  • Ps 102:9
    68%

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