Job 31:21 “if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that…”

Job 31:21

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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;

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

If I haue lift vp mine hande against the fatherlesse, when I saw that I might helpe him in the gate,

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

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;

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Cross references

“lifted”

Job 22:9 Job 29:12 Job 6:27 Job 24:9 Jeremiah 5:28 Ezekiel 22:7

Job 22:9 · BSB

You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

Job 29:12 · BSB

because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.

Job 6:27 · BSB

You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.

Job 24:9 · BSB

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

Jeremiah 5:28 · BSB

They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.

Ezekiel 22:7 · BSB

Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.

“when”

Micah 7:3 Micah 2:1 Micah 2:2

Micah 7:3 · BSB

Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.

Micah 2:1 · BSB

Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.

Micah 2:2 · BSB

They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

20if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,

22then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.

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