Job 31:19

Good News Translation

When I found someone in need, too poor to buy clothes,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
if I have seen anyone dying for lack of clothingor a needy person without a cloak,

Hebrew Names Version
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;

King James Version
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

English Standard Version
if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or the needy without covering,

New Century Version
I have not let anyone die for lack of clothes or let a needy person go without a coat.

New English Translation
If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without a coat,

Amplified Bible
If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, Or any poor person without covering,

New American Standard Bible
If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering,

World English Bible
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;

Geneva Bible (1587)
If I haue seene any perish for want of clothing, or any poore without couering,

Legacy Standard Bible
If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing,Or that the needy had no covering,

Berean Standard Bible
if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,

Contemporary English Version
I provided clothes for the poor,

Complete Jewish Bible
or if I saw a traveler needing clothing, someone in need who had no covering,

Darby Translation
If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;

Easy-to-Read Version
Whenever I found people suffering because they didn't have clothes or saw a poor man with no coat,

George Lamsa Translation
If I have seen anyone perishing for want of clothing, or any poor without covering

Lexham English Bible
if I have seen the one who perishes because of no clothing or that there is no covering for the poor,

Literal Translation
If I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or there was no covering for the needy;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Haue I sene eny man perish thorow nakednes & want of clothinge? Or, eny poore man for lack of rayment,

American Standard Version
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;

Bible in Basic English
If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
If I have seen any wanderer in want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

King James Version (1611)
If I haue seene any perish for want of cloathing, or any poore without couering:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
If I haue seene any perishe for want of clothing, or any poore for lake of rayment:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him;

English Revised Version
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
if Y dispiside a man passynge forth, for he hadde not a cloth, and a pore man with out hilyng;

Update Bible Version
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;

Webster's Bible Translation
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

New King James Version
If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, Or any poor man without covering;

New Living Translation
Whenever I saw the homeless without clothes and the needy with nothing to wear,

New Life Bible
if I have seen anyone die because he had no clothing, or left any poor person without clothes,

New Revised Standard
if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or a poor person without covering,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If I saw one perishing for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

Douay-Rheims Bible
If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:

Revised Standard Version
if I have seen any one perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without covering;

Young's Literal Translation
If I see [any] perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy,

THE MESSAGE
"Have I ever left a poor family shivering in the cold when they had no warm clothes? Didn't the poor bless me when they saw me coming, knowing I'd brought coats from my closet?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering,

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ I have never refused to help the poor; never have I let widows live in despair ¹⁷ or let orphans go hungry while I ate. ¹⁸ All my life I have taken care of them. ¹⁹ When I found someone in need, too poor to buy clothes, ²⁰ I would give him clothing made of wool that had come from my own flock of sheep. Then he would praise me with all his heart. ²¹ If I have ever cheated an orphan, knowing I could win in court, ²² then may my arms be broken; may they be torn from my shoulders. ²³ Because I fear God's punishment, I could never do such a thing.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 22:6, 2 Chronicles 28:15, Isaiah 58:7, Matthew 25:36, Matthew 25:43, Luke 3:11, Acts 9:39, James 2:16, 1 John 3:18

Reciprocal: Job 24:7 - the naked Job 29:13 - ready Job 34:28 - they Ezekiel 18:16 - but hath Hebrews 13:2 - not

Cross-References

Genesis 31:4
So Jacob sent word to Rachel and Leah to meet him in the field where his flocks were.

Genesis 31:5
He said to them, "I have noticed that your father is not as friendly toward me as he used to be; but my father's God has been with me.

Genesis 31:14
Rachel and Leah answered Jacob, "There is nothing left for us to inherit from our father.

Genesis 31:24
In a dream that night God came to Laban and said to him, "Be careful not to threaten Jacob in any way."

Genesis 31:30
I know that you left because you were so anxious to get back home, but why did you steal my household gods?"

Genesis 31:32
But if you find that anyone here has your gods, he will be put to death. Here, with our men as witnesses, look for anything that belongs to you and take what is yours." Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen Laban's gods.

Genesis 31:34
Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in a camel's saddlebag and was sitting on them. Laban searched through the whole tent, but did not find them.

Genesis 35:2
So Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that you have; purify yourselves and put on clean clothes.

Joshua 24:2
Joshua said to all the people, "This is what the Lord , the God of Israel, has to say: ‘Long ago your ancestors lived on the other side of the Euphrates River and worshiped other gods. One of those ancestors was Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor.

Judges 18:31
Micah's idol remained there as long as the Tent where God was worshiped remained at Shiloh.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing,.... A man may be in such poor circumstances as to want proper clothing to cover his naked body with, and preserve it from the inclemencies of the weather, and for want of it be ready to perish or die with cold. Job denies he had seen any such; not that he had never seen persons in such perishing circumstances; but he had not seen them as to "despise" them, as the Vulgate Latin version, as to have them in contempt, or look at them with disdain because of their poverty and rags, or sordid apparel; or so as to "overlook" them, as the Septuagint version, to neglect them, and to take no notice of them, and make no provision for their clothing, a warm and comfortable garment, as in Job 31:20:

or any poor without covering; without clothing sufficient to cover himself with, and keep him warm; Job had seen such objects, but he did not leave them in such a condition; he saw them, and had compassion on them, and clothed them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If I have seen any perish ... - He turns to another virtue of the same general class - that of providing for the poor. The meaning is clear, that he had always assisted the poor and needy.