Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Thou have not given water to the weary to drink, and thou have withheld bread from the hungry.

New American Standard Bible

“To the weary you have given no water to drink,
And from the hungry you have withheld bread.

King James Version

Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

Holman Bible

You gave no water to the thirsty
and withheld food from the famished,

International Standard Version

You've neglected to give water to the weary, and you've withheld food from the hungry.

American Standard Version

Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, And thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

Amplified


“You have not given water to the weary to drink,
And you have withheld bread from the hungry.

Bible in Basic English

You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.

Darby Translation

Thou hast not given water to the fainting to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

Julia Smith Translation

Thou wilt not give to the weary one water to drink, and from the hungry one thou wilt withhold bread.

King James 2000

You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You have given no water [for the] weary to drink, and you withheld food from [the] hungry.

Modern King James verseion

You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have held back bread from the hungry.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

To such as were weary, hast thou given no water to drink, and thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

The Emphasized Bible

No water - to the weary, hast thou given to drink, and, from the hungry, thou hast withheld broad:

Webster

Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withheld bread from the hungry.

World English Bible

You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

Youngs Literal Translation

Thou causest not the weary to drink water, And from the hungry thou withholdest bread.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Thou hast not given water
מים 
Mayim 
Usage: 581

to the weary
עיף 
`ayeph 
Usage: 17

to drink
שׁקה 
Shaqah 
Usage: 60

and thou hast withholden
מנע 
mana` 
Usage: 29

References

Hastings

Job

Context Readings

Eliphaz's Third Speech

6 For thou have taken pledges from thy brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing. 7 Thou have not given water to the weary to drink, and thou have withheld bread from the hungry. 8 But as for the mighty man, he had the land. And the honorable man, he dwelt in it.


Cross References

Job 31:17

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

Isaiah 58:7

Is it not to deal thy bread to a hungry man, and that thou bring the poor who are cast out to thy house, when thou see a naked man, that thou cover him, and that thou not hide thyself from thine own flesh?

Ezekiel 18:7

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

Ezekiel 18:16

nor has wronged any man, has not taken anything to pledge, nor has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to a hungry man, and has covered a naked man with a garment,

Matthew 25:42

For I was hungry, and ye did not give me to eat, I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink,

Deuteronomy 15:7-11

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,

Job 31:31

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

Psalm 112:9

He has scattered, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn shall be exalted with honor.

Proverbs 11:24-25

There is he who scatters, and increases yet more, and there he is who withholds more than is proper, but only to want.

Proverbs 19:17

He who has pity upon a poor man lends to LORD, and he will repay him his good deed.

Isaiah 58:10

and if thou draw out thy soul to a hungry man, and satisfy an afflicted soul, then thy light shall rise in darkness, and thine obscurity be as the noonday.

Romans 12:20

Therefore if thine enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him to drink. For by doing this thou will heap coals of fire upon his head.

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