Job 22:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, And thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. [Matt. 25:42.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, And thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

Common English Bible

⁷ denied water to the thirsty, withheld bread from the starving. (

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ You have not given water to the weary; you have taken bread away from the hungry.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ Thou hast not given water to the weary: thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.

Job 22:7 Cross References

Job 31:16

“If I have withheld anything that the poor desired or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail

Job 31:17

or have eaten my morsel alone and the orphan has not eaten from it—

Job 31:31

if those of my tent ever said, ‘O that we might be sated with his flesh!’—

Psalm 112:9

They have distributed freely; they have given to the poor; their righteousness endures forever; their horn is exalted in honor.

Proverbs 19:17

Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord and will be repaid in full.

Isaiah 58:10

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.

Isaiah 58:7

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them and not to hide yourself from your own kin?

Ezekiel 18:16

does not wrong anyone, exacts no pledge, commits no robbery but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,

Ezekiel 18:7

does not oppress anyone but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,

Matthew 25:42

for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,

Romans 12:20

Instead, “if your enemies are hungry, feed them; if they are thirsty, give them something to drink, for by doing this you will heap burning coals on their heads.”