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Job 31:15-20 KJV
Job · chapter 31 · verses 15–20
15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? 16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 17Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; 18(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;) 19If I have seen any perish for want 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;Job 31:15-20 · King James Version
Job 31:15-20 in context
13If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
14What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
17Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
18(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)
19If I have seen any perish for want 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 up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
22Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- fatherlessyâthôwma bereaved personH3490 →
- withheldmânaʻto debar from benefit or injuryH4513 →
- mother'sʼêma motherH517 →
- clothinglᵉbûwsha garmentH3830 →
- fashionkûwnproperly, to be erectH3559 →
- blessedbârakto kneelH1288 →
- desirechêphetspleasureH2656 →
- morselpatha bitH6595 →
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Two more instances we have here of Job's integrity: - I. That he had a very great abhorrence of the sin of adultery. As he did not wrong his own marriage bed by keeping a concubine (he did not so much as think upon a maid, v. 1), so he was careful not to offer any injury to his neighbour's marriage bed.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-15