🌪️WEB · Job 31:17
What does Job 31:17 mean?
"or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it"
— Job 31:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?
Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?
“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her I have guided from my mother’s womb);
if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;
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