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Job 31:16

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Job 31:16 · King James Version

In other versions

  • If I have withheld the poor from `their' desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

    ASV

  • If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

    BBE

  • If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

    DBY

  • "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

    WEB

  • If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,

    YLT

  • If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

    ENG

  • If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

    WBT

  • If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,

    BSB

In context

14What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

17Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

18(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

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