Job 31:19

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

If I saw one perishing for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

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

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

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,

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 If I withheld - from pleasure - the poor, or, the eyes of the widow, I dimmed; ¹⁷ Or, used to eat my morsel alone, so that the fatherless did not eat thereof; ¹⁸ Surely, from my youth, he grew up to me, as to a father, and, from my birth, I acted as guide to her: ¹⁹ If I saw one perishing for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; ²⁰ If his loins did not bless me, or if, with the fleece of my lambs, he did not warm himself; ²¹ If I shook - against the fatherless - my hand, when I saw, in the gate, his need of my help, ²² Let, my shoulder, from the shoulder-blade, fall, and, my arm, from the upper bone, be broken; ²³ For, a dread unto me, was calamity from GOD, and, from his majesty, I could not escape.

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, and called for Rachel and for Leah, to the field unto his flock;

Genesis 31:5
and said to them, Beholding, am I the face of your father, that it is not towards me as aforetime, - nevertheless, the God of my father, hath been with me;

Genesis 31:14
Then responded Rachel and Leah, and said to him, - Have we any longer a portion or an inheritance in the house of our father?

Genesis 31:24
And God went in unto Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, - and said to him Take heed to thyself that thou speak not with Jacob either good or bad.

Genesis 31:30
But, now, though thou, didst even take thy journey, because thou, didst sorely long, for the house of thy father,, wherefore didst thou steal away my gods?

Genesis 31:32
He with whom thou find thy gods, shall not live! Before our brethren, note thou for thyself what is with me and take what is thine. Neither did Jacob know that, Rachel, had stolen them.

Genesis 31:34
Now Rachel, had taken the household gods and put them in the basket-saddle of the camel, and taken her seat upon them. And Laban felt about throughout all the tent, and found them not.

Genesis 35:2
And Jacob said unto his house, and unto all who were with him, - Put away the gods of the alien which are in your midst, and purify yourselves, and change your garments;

Joshua 24:2
Then said Joshua unto all the people - Thus, saith Yahweh, God of Israel, Beyond the River, dwelt your fathers from age-past times, unto Terah, father of Abraham, and father of Nahor, - and they served other gods.

Judges 18:31
So they set up for themselves the graven image of Micah, which he had made, - and let it remain all the days that the house of God was in 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.