Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

If I shook - against the fatherless - my hand, when I saw, in the gate, his need of my help,

New American Standard Bible

If I have lifted up my hand against the orphan,
Because I saw I had support in the gate,

King James Version

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

Holman Bible

if I ever cast my vote against a fatherless child
when I saw that I had support in the city gate,

International Standard Version

if I've raised my hand against an orphan when I thought I would against him in court,

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:

Amplified


If I have lifted my hand against the orphan,
Because I saw [that the judges would be] my help at the [council] gate,

Bible in Basic English

If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

Darby Translation

If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:

Julia Smith Translation

If I lifted up my hand against the orphan when I shall see, my help in the gate:

King James 2000

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw I had help in the gate:

Lexham Expanded Bible

if I have raised my hand against an orphan because I saw my supporters at the gate,

Modern King James verseion

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless when I watched over my help in the gate;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Did I ever lift up my hand to hurt the fatherless; yea, in the gates where I saw myself to be in authority?

NET Bible

if I have raised my hand to vote against the orphan, when I saw my support in the court,

New Heart English Bible

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

Webster

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in him the gate of my court,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If I have lifted up
נוּף 
Nuwph 
Usage: 37

my hand
יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

יתום 
Yathowm 
Usage: 42

when I saw
ראה 
Ra'ah 
Usage: 1308

my help
עזרת עזרה 
`ezrah 
Usage: 26

References

Smith

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense Continued

20 If his loins did not bless me, or if, with the fleece of my lambs, he did not warm himself; 21 If I shook - against the fatherless - my hand, when I saw, in the gate, his need of my help, 22 Let, my shoulder, from the shoulder-blade, fall, and, my arm, from the upper bone, be broken;

Cross References

Job 22:9

Widows, thou hast sent away empty, and, the arms of the fatherless, thou dost crush.

Job 29:12

Because I used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper;

Job 6:27

Surely, the fatherless, ye would assail, and make merchandise of your friend!

Job 24:9

Men tear, from the breast, the fatherless, and, over the poor, they take a pledge;

Proverbs 23:10-11

Do not move back the ancient boundary, and, into the fields of the fatherless, do not enter;

Jeremiah 5:28

They have waxed fat, they shine Yea they have overpassed the records of wickedness. The right, have they not determined, the right of the fatherless that they might prosper, - Yea justice to the helpless, have they not decreed.

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother, have they despised in thee, To the sojourner, have they dealt with oppression in the midst of thee, - The fatherless and the widow, have they maltreated in thee:

Micah 2:1-2

Alas for them who devise iniquity and work wickedness upon their beds, - in the light of the morning, they will execute it, for it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 7:3

Of wickedness with both hands to make sure, the ruler, doth make demand - and the judge - for a recompense, - and, as for the great man, he, is putting into words the desire of his soul, So have they woven the net!

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