🌪️WEB · Job 31:21
What does Job 31:21 mean?
"if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,"
— Job 31:21 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
(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;
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.
“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’
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