the guests in my house have forgotten me; my female servants count me as a stranger; I have become an alien in their eyes.
Job 31:31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 if those of my tent ever said, ‘O that we might be sated with his flesh!’— More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [Just ask] if the men of my tent will not say, Who can find one in need who has not been satisfied with food he gave them?– American Standard Version (1901) If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat? Common English Bible Surely those in my tent never said: “Who has been filled by Job’s food?” Catholic Public Domain Version if the men around my tabernacle have not said: "He might give us some of his food, so that we will be filled," Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled? |
the guests in my house have forgotten me; my female servants count me as a stranger; I have become an alien in their eyes.
You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger.
Did I not weep for those whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
the stranger has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the traveler—
When evildoers assail me to devour my flesh— my adversaries and foes— they shall stumble and fall.
Do not let them say to themselves, “Aha, we have our heart’s desire.” Do not let them say, “We have swallowed you up.”
yet they lie in wait—to kill themselves! and set an ambush—for their own lives!
if you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday.
This very day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you into my hand in the cave, and some urged me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, ‘I will not raise my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.’
The men of David said to him, “Here is the day of which the Lord said to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it seems good to you.’ ” Then David went and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul’s cloak.
Abishai said to David, “God has given your enemy into your hand today; now, therefore, let me pin him to the ground with one stroke of the spear; I will not strike him twice.”