Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
New American Standard Bible
Or have caused the eyes of
King James Version
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Holman Bible
or let the widow’s
International Standard Version
"If I refused to grant the desire of the poor or exhausted the eyes of the widow,
American Standard Version
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Amplified
“If I have withheld from the poor what they desired,
Or have caused the eyes of the widow to look in vain [for relief],
Bible in Basic English
If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;
Darby Translation
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Julia Smith Translation
If I shall withhold from the desire of the poor, and cause the eyes of the widow to fail;
King James 2000
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Lexham Expanded Bible
"If I have withheld [the] desire of [the] poor from [them], or I have caused [the] widow's eyes to fail,
Modern King James verseion
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"When the poor desireth anything of me, have I denied it them? Have I caused the widow stand waiting for me in vain?
NET Bible
If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
New Heart English Bible
"If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
The Emphasized Bible
If I withheld - from pleasure - the poor, or, the eyes of the widow, I dimmed;
Webster
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
World English Bible
"If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Youngs Literal Translation
If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,
Themes
Beneficence » Instances of » Job
Love to man » Should be exhibited in » Visiting the sick, &c
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
15 Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb? 16 If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, 17 or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
Phrases
Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:7-10
If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brothers, within any of thy gates in thy land which LORD thy God gives thee, thou shall not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother,
Deuteronomy 28:32
Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given to another people. And thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day, and there shall be nothing in the power of thy hand.
Job 5:16
So a poor man has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.
Job 20:19
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
Job 22:7-9
Thou have not given water to the weary to drink, and thou have withheld bread from the hungry.
Psalm 69:3
I am weary with my crying. My throat is dried. My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Psalm 112:9
He has scattered, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn shall be exalted with honor.
Psalm 119:82
My eyes fail for thy word, while I say, When will thou comfort me?
Psalm 119:123
My eyes fail for thy salvation, and for thy righteous word.
Isaiah 38:14
Like a swallow [or] a crane, so I chattered. I moaned as a dove. My eyes fail [with looking] upward. O LORD, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
Lamentations 4:17
Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
Luke 16:21
and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. But even the dogs that came licked his sores.
Acts 11:29
And the disciples, as any man prospered, determined, each of them regarding aid, to send to the brothers who dwell in Judea,
Galatians 2:10
only that we should remember the poor, which this same thing I also was eager to do.