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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?
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 King James verseion
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless when I watched over my help in the gate;
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
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
20 whose sides thanked me not, because he was warmed with the wool of my sheep? 21 Did I ever lift up my hand to hurt the fatherless; yea, in the gates where I saw myself to be in authority? 22 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder, and mine arm holes be broken from the joints.
Cross References
Job 22:9
Thou hast sent widows away empty and oppressed the poor fatherless.
Job 29:12
"For I delivered the poor when he cried, and the fatherless that wanted help.
Job 6:27
Ye fall upon the fatherless, and go about to overthrow your own friend.
Job 24:9
They spoil the sucking fatherless children, and put the poor in prison,
Proverbs 23:10-11
Remove not the old landmark, and come not within the field of the fatherless.
Jeremiah 5:28
hereof are they fat and wealthy, and are run away from me with shameful blasphemies. They minister not the law, they make no end of the fatherless cause, they judge not the poor according to equity.
Ezekiel 22:7
In thee have they despised father and mother, in thee have they oppressed the stranger, in thee have they vexed the widow and the fatherless.
Micah 2:1-2
Woe unto them that imagine to do harm, and devise ungraciousness upon their beds, to perform it in the clear day: for their power is against God.
Micah 7:3
yet they say they do well when they do evil. As the prince will, so sayeth the judge: that he may do him a pleasure again. The great man speaketh what his heart desireth; and the hearers allow him.