Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
if I have raised my hand against an orphan because I saw my supporters at the gate,
New American Standard Bible
Because I saw
King James Version
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
Holman Bible
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:
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,
The Emphasized Bible
If I shook - against the fatherless - my hand, when I saw, in the gate, his need of my help,
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,
Themes
Beneficence » Instances of » Job
Love to man » Should be exhibited in » Visiting the sick, &c
Interlinear
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Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
20 if his loins have not blessed me, or by means of my sheep's fleece he has warmed himself, 21 if I have raised my hand against an orphan because I saw my supporters at the gate, 22 [then] let my shoulder blade fall from [my] shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket.
Cross References
Job 22:9
You have sent widows away empty-handed, and [the] arms of orphans were crushed.
Job 29:12
because I saved [the] needy who cried for help, and [I saved] [the] orphan for whom [there was] no helper.
Job 6:27
Even over [the] orphan you would cast the lot, and you would bargain over your friend.
Job 24:9
"They snatch [the] orphan from [the] breast, and they take a pledge against [the] needy.
Proverbs 23:10-11
Do not remove an ancient boundary marker, and on the fields of orphans do not encroach;
Jeremiah 5:28
They have grown fat, they have grown sleek, also, {their evil deeds have no limit}. They do not judge [with] justice, [the] legal cause of [the] orphan, or allow it to succeed, and [the] legal case of [the] poor, they do not defend.
Ezekiel 22:7
They have treated father and mother with contempt in you; {they violated} the alien with extortion; in the midst of you they mistreated [the] orphan and widow.
Micah 2:1-2
Woe [to] those who plan wickedness and evil deeds upon their beds! In the light of the morning they did it, because they have power in their hands.
Micah 7:3
Their hands [are] upon evil, to do [it] well; the official and the judge ask for the bribe, and the great [man] utters the evil desire of his soul; and they weave [it] together.