Job 31:19

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 22:6 : 6 “For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.
  • Job 24:4 : 4 They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.
  • Job 29:13 : 13 the blessing of the dying man descended on me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice;
  • Isa 58:7 : 7 I want you to share your food with the hungry and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people. When you see someone naked, clothe him! Don’t turn your back on your own flesh and blood!
  • Matt 25:36 : 36 I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.’
  • Matt 25:43 : 43 I was a stranger and you did not receive me as a guest, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’
  • Luke 3:11 : 11 John answered them,“The person who has two tunics must share with the person who has none, and the person who has food must do likewise.”
  • Acts 9:39 : 39 So Peter got up and went with them, and when he arrived they brought him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him, crying and showing him the tunics and other clothing Dorcas used to make while she was with them.
  • Jas 2:16 : 16 and one of you says to them,“Go in peace, keep warm and eat well,” but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it?
  • 1 John 3:18 : 18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.
  • 2 Chr 28:15 : 15 Men were assigned to take the prisoners and find clothes among the plunder for those who were naked. So they clothed them, supplied them with sandals, gave them food and drink, and provided them with oil to rub on their skin. They put the ones who couldn’t walk on donkeys. They brought them back to their brothers at Jericho, the city of date palm trees, and then returned to Samaria.

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  • Job 31:20-22
    3 verses
    87%

    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 31:16-18
    3 verses
    81%

    16If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

    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!

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

  • Job 29:11-16
    6 verses
    75%

    11Job’s Benevolence“As soon as the ear heard these things, it blessed me, and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me,

    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;

    14I put on righteousness and it clothed me, my just dealing was like a robe and a turban;

    15I was eyes for the blind and feet for the lame;

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

  • 16does not oppress anyone or keep what has been given in pledge, does not commit robbery, gives his food to the hungry, and clothes the naked,

  • 15If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food,

  • Job 31:38-39
    2 verses
    74%

    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,

  • 27for it is his only covering– it is his garment for his body. What else can he sleep in? And when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.

  • 7does not oppress anyone, but gives the debtor back whatever was given in pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked,

  • Job 24:7-10
    4 verses
    72%

    7They spend the night naked because they lack clothing; they have no covering against the cold.

    8They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter.

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

    10They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.

  • Gen 31:38-40
    3 verses
    72%

    38“I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.

    39Animals torn by wild beasts I never brought to you; I always absorbed the loss myself. You always made me pay for every missing animal, whether it was taken by day or at night.

    40I was consumed by scorching heat during the day and by piercing cold at night, and I went without sleep.

  • 25I was once young, now I am old. I have never seen a godly man abandoned, or his children forced to search for food.

  • 6“For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.

  • 71%

    20She opened her hand to the poor, and extended her hands to the needy.

    21She would not fear for her household in winter, because all of her household were clothed with scarlet,

  • 33if I have covered my transgressions as men do, by hiding iniquity in my heart,

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

  • 7I want you to share your food with the hungry and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people. When you see someone naked, clothe him! Don’t turn your back on your own flesh and blood!

  • Gen 44:28-29
    2 verses
    70%

    28The first disappeared and I said,“He has surely been torn to pieces.” I have not seen him since.

    29If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.’

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

  • 31if the members of my household have never said,‘If only there were someone who has not been satisfied from Job’s meat!’–

  • 3But the poor man had nothing except for a little lamb he had acquired. He raised it, and it grew up alongside him and his children. It used to eat his food, drink from his cup, and sleep in his arms. It was just like a daughter to him.

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

  • 38When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or naked and clothe you?

  • 26if I looked at the sun when it was shining, and the moon advancing as a precious thing,

  • 19These double disasters confronted you. But who feels sorry for you? Destruction and devastation, famine and sword. But who consoles you?

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

  • 14I mourned for them as I would for a friend or my brother. I bowed down in sorrow as if I were mourning for my mother.

  • 27whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.

  • 18Listen to the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander around in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 17The one who is gracious to the poor lends to the LORD, and the LORD will repay him for his good deed.