Job 31:21
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
KJV
si levavi super pupillum manum meam, etiam cum viderem me in porta superiorem :
Vulgate
εἰ ἐπῆρα ὀρφανῷ χεῖρα, πεποιθὼς ὅτι πολλή μοι βοήθεια περίεστιν,
LXX
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:
ASV
אִם הֲנִיפ֣וֹתִי עַל יָת֣וֹם יָדִ֑/י כִּֽי אֶרְאֶ֥ה בַ֝/שַּׁ֗עַר עֶזְרָתִֽ/י
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אִם
'm
conjunction · 1065×
הֵנִ֥יף
hnyp
verb · 36×
וֹ
v
noun · 1620×
י
y
noun · 22×
יַּ֣רְא
yr'
verb · 1312×
יָּת֥וֹם
ytvm
noun · 42×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
שַׁ֣עַר
sh'r
noun · 375×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Deut 16:19 — Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
- Job 22:9 — Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
- Job 22:9 — Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
- Job 29:12 — Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
- Num 5:22 — And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
- Prov 14:16 — A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
- Prov 22:22 — Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
- Prov 23:10 — Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
- Prov 29:7 — The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.