Job 31:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ “If I have withheld anything that the poor desired or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ If I have withheld from the poor and needy what they desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to look in vain [for relief],

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Common English Bible

¹⁶ If I have denied what the poor wanted, made a widow’s eyes tired,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ If I have denied the poor what they wanted and have made the eyes of the widow wait;

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:

Job 31:16 Cross References

Job 20:19

For they have crushed and abandoned the poor; they have seized a house that they did not build.

Job 5:16

So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

Psalm 112:9

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

Psalm 119:123

My eyes fail from watching for your salvation and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise.

Psalm 119:82

My eyes fail with watching for your promise; I ask, “When will you comfort me?”

Psalm 69:3

I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.

Exodus 22:22

You shall not abuse any widow or orphan.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not rob the poor because they are poor or crush the afflicted at the gate,

Proverbs 31:20

She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.

Isaiah 10:2

to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, to make widows their spoil and to plunder orphans!

Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow or a crane I clamor; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security!

Lamentations 4:17

Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; we were watching eagerly for a nation that could not save.

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,

Leviticus 25:35

“If any of your kin fall into difficulty and become dependent on you, you shall support them; they shall live with you as though resident aliens.

Matthew 25:17

In the same way, the one who had the two talents made two more talents.

Luke 16:21

who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man’s table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores.

Acts 11:29

The disciples determined that, according to their ability, each would send relief to the brothers and sisters living in Judea;

Galatians 2:10

They asked only one thing, that we remember the poor, which was actually what I was eager to do.

Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and daughters shall be given to another people while you look on; you will strain your eyes looking for them all day but be powerless to do anything.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.