Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 31:21 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, When I saw my help in the gate: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If I have lifted my hand against the fatherless when I saw [that the judges would be favorable and be] my help at the [council] gate, American Standard Version (1901) If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate: Common English Bible if I have lifted my hand against the orphans, when I saw that I had help in the city gate— Catholic Public Domain Version if I have lifted up my hand over an orphan, even when it might seem to me that I the advantage over him at the gate; Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate: |
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
when I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
if his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.