Job 31:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ If I have withheld the poor from their desire, 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;

Job 31:16 Cross References

Job 20:19

For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away an house, and he shall not build it up.

Job 5:16

So the poor hath hope, And iniquity stoppeth her mouth

Psalm 112:9

He hath dispersed, he hath given to the needy; His righteousness endureth for ever: His horn shall be exalted with honour.

Psalm 119:123

Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, And for thy righteous word.

Psalm 119:82

Mine eyes fail for thy word, While I say, When wilt thou comfort me?

Psalm 69:3

I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Exodus 22:22

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Proverbs 22:22

Rob not the poor, because he is poor, Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Proverbs 31:20

She spreadeth out her hand to the poor; Yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

Isaiah 10:2

to turn aside the needy from judgement, and to take away the right of the poor of my people, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward; O LORD, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

Lamentations 4:17

Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help; in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

Ezekiel 18:16

neither hath wronged any, hath not taken aught to pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,

Leviticus 25:35

And if thy brother be waxen poor, and his hand fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: as a stranger and a sojourner shall he live with thee.

Matthew 25:17

In like manner he also that received the two gained other two.

Luke 16:21

and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table; yea, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

Acts 11:29

And the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren that dwelt in Judaea:

Galatians 2:10

only they would that we should remember the poor; which very thing I was also zealous to do.

Deuteronomy 28:32

Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nought in the power of thine hand.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.