Job 31:17

World English Bible (2000)

or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 15:11 : 11 For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
  • Deut 15:14 : 14 you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh 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, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Don't be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength."
  • Job 22:7 : 7 You haven't 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, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him, 13 the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. 16 I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.
  • Ezek 18:7 : 7 and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
  • Ezek 18:16 : 16 neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
  • Luke 11:41 : 41 But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
  • John 13:29 : 29 For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, "Buy what things we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.
  • Acts 4:32 : 32 The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.
  • Rom 12:13 : 13 contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
  • 1 John 3:17 : 17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain 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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    18 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother's womb);

    19 if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

    20 if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;

    21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

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  • Job 29:12-13
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    12 Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,

    13 the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

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

  • Job 31:39
    75%

    39 if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

  • Job 29:16-17
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    73%

    16 I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.

    17 I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

  • Job 24:9-10
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    9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

    10 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

  • Lam 5:3
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    3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

  • Jer 49:11
    72%

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

  • Ezek 18:16
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    16 neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

  • Ps 37:25
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    25 I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

  • Job 22:7
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    7 You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

  • Ezek 22:7
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    7 In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

  • Ps 10:14
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    14 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

  • Job 6:27
    71%

    27 Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

  • Exod 22:22
    71%

    22 "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

  • Job 31:29-31
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    29 "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

    30 (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

    31 if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'

  • Job 31:8
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    8 then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

  • Job 30:25
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    25 Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?

  • Ezek 18:7
    70%

    7 and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

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    10 Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:

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    23 An abundance of food is in poor people's fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

  • Prov 4:3
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    3 For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.

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    17 You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

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

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    9 lest I be full, deny you, and say, 'Who is Yahweh?' or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

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    14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away of it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead: I have listened to the voice of Yahweh my God; I have done according to all that you have commanded me.

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

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

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

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

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    27 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

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    38 "These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks.

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    4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on Yahweh?

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    13 "If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;

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    7 My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.

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    18 to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. For the Chief Musician. By David.

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    15 If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

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