🌪️WEB · Job 31:20

What does Job 31:20 mean?

"if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;"

— Job 31:20 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

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(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her I have guided from my mother’s womb);

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if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

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if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;

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if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

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then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

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For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.

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