Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless when I watched over my help in 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:
Lexham Expanded Bible
if I have raised my hand against an orphan because I saw my supporters at 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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References
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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, and he warmed himself with the fleece of my flock; 21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless when I watched over my help in the gate; 22 then let my arm fall from the shoulder blade, and let my arm be broken from the elbow.
Cross References
Job 22:9
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 29:12
For I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.
Job 6:27
Yea, you cause anger to fall on the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.
Job 24:9
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor.
Proverbs 23:10-11
Do not remove the old landmarks, and do not enter into the fields of the fatherless;
Jeremiah 5:28
They have become fat, they shine. Yes, they go past the deeds of the wicked; they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may get rich; and they do not judge the right of the needy.
Ezekiel 22:7
In you they have despised father and mother. In your midst they have dealt with the stranger by oppression. In you they oppressed the orphan and the widow.
Micah 2:1-2
Woe to those who plot wickedness and prepare evil on their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Micah 7:3
Both hands are on evil, to do it well. The ruler asks for a bribe, and the judge also; and the great man speaks the evil desire of his soul. So they weave it together.