Job 31:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 15:7-9 : 7 The Spirit of Liberality If a fellow Israelite from one of your villages in the land that the LORD your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive to his impoverished condition. 8 Instead, you must be sure to open your hand to him and generously lend him whatever he needs. 9 Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite and you do not lend him anything; he will cry out to the LORD against you and you will be regarded as having sinned. 10 You must by all means lend to him and not be upset by doing it, for because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you attempt.
  • Deut 28:32 : 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.
  • Job 5:16 : 16 Thus the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts its mouth.
  • Job 20:19 : 19 For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.
  • Job 22:7-9 : 7 You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food. 8 Although you were a powerful man, owning land, an honored man living on it, 9 you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.
  • Ps 69:3 : 3 I am exhausted from shouting for help; my throat is sore; my eyes grow tired of looking for my God.
  • Ps 112:9 : 9 He generously gives to the needy; his integrity endures. He will be vindicated and honored.
  • Ps 119:82 : 82 My eyes grow tired as I wait for your promise to be fulfilled. I say,“When will you comfort me?”
  • Ps 119:123 : 123 My eyes grow tired as I wait for your deliverance, for your reliable promise to be fulfilled.
  • Isa 38:14 : 14 Like a swallow or a thrush I chirp, I coo like a dove; my eyes grow tired from looking up to the sky. O Lord, I am oppressed; help me!
  • Lam 4:17 : 17 ע(Ayin)The People of Jerusalem Lament: Our eyes continually failed us as we looked in vain for help. From our watchtowers we watched for a nation that could not rescue us.
  • Luke 16:21 : 21 who longed to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. In addition, the dogs came and licked his sores.
  • Acts 11:29 : 29 So the disciples, each in accordance with his financial ability, decided to send relief to the brothers living in Judea.
  • Gal 2:10 : 10 They requested only that we remember the poor, the very thing I also was eager to do.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 31:17-22
    6 verses
    84%

    17If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans–

    18but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow!

    19If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without a coat,

    20whose heart did not bless me as he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep,

    21if I have raised my hand to vote against the orphan, when I saw my support in the court,

    22then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let my arm be broken off at the socket.

  • Job 29:12-13
    2 verses
    77%

    12for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him;

    13the blessing of the dying man descended on me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice;

  • Job 22:9
    77%

    9you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.

  • Job 30:25
    76%

    25Have I not wept for the unfortunate? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

  • Isa 10:2
    76%

    2to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.

  • Job 31:13-15
    3 verses
    76%

    13“If I have disregarded the right of my male servants or my female servants when they disputed with me,

    14then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?

    15Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?

  • Job 31:38-39
    2 verses
    75%

    38Job’s Final Solemn Oath“If my land cried out against me and all its furrows wept together,

    39if I have eaten its produce without paying, or caused the death of its owners,

  • Job 29:16
    74%

    16I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case of the person I did not know;

  • Job 24:21
    73%

    21He preys on the barren and childless woman, and does not treat the widow well.

  • Jer 49:11
    72%

    11Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.”

  • Job 22:7
    72%

    7You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.

  • Job 31:7-9
    3 verses
    72%

    7If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,

    8then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.

    9If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door,

  • Job 31:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24“If I have put my confidence in gold or said to pure gold,‘You are my security!’

    25if I have rejoiced because of the extent of my wealth, or because of the great wealth my hand had gained,

  • Job 3:10
    72%

    10because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!

  • Prov 22:16
    72%

    16The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich– both end up only in poverty.

  • Prov 14:31
    72%

    31The one who oppresses the poor has insulted his Creator, but whoever honors him shows favor to the needy.

  • Job 5:16
    72%

    16Thus the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts its mouth.

  • Prov 30:9
    72%

    9lest I become satisfied and act deceptively and say,“Who is the LORD?” Or lest I become poor and steal and demean the name of my God.

  • Prov 31:9
    72%

    9Open your mouth, judge in righteousness, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

  • Job 3:16
    71%

    16Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?

  • Job 24:9
    71%

    9The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

  • Job 10:18
    71%

    18An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

  • Job 31:29-30
    2 verses
    71%

    29If I have rejoiced over the misfortune of my enemy or exulted because calamity found him–

    30I have not even permitted my mouth to sin by asking for his life through a curse–

  • Exod 22:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22“You must not afflict any widow or orphan.

    23If you afflict them in any way and they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry,

  • Lam 5:3
    71%

    3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

  • Ps 31:9
    71%

    9Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength.

  • Job 31:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1Job Vindicates Himself“I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I entertain thoughts against a virgin?

    2What then would be one’s lot from God above, one’s heritage from the Almighty on high?

  • Job 6:13
    70%

    13Is not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource been driven from me?

  • Job 31:27
    70%

    27so that my heart was secretly enticed, and my hand threw them a kiss from my mouth,

  • 1 Tim 5:16
    70%

    16If a believing woman has widows in her family, let her help them. The church should not be burdened, so that it may help the widows who are truly in need.

  • Job 24:3
    70%

    3They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

  • Jer 22:16
    70%

    16He upheld the cause of the poor and needy. So things went well for Judah.’ The LORD says,‘That is a good example of what it means to know me.’

  • Ps 73:15
    70%

    15If I had publicized these thoughts, I would have betrayed your people.

  • Ps 10:14
    70%

    14You have taken notice, for you always see one who inflicts pain and suffering. The unfortunate victim entrusts his cause to you; you deliver the fatherless.

  • Prov 28:27
    70%

    27The one who gives to the poor will not lack, but whoever shuts his eyes to them will receive many curses.