Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 31:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because 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.
There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor:
Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.
When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,
Or have eaten my morsel 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;
Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.
Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness: they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they should 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 wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge is ready for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the mischief of his soul: thus they weave it together.