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Job 31:19
If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:
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Christian Standard Bible®
if I have seen anyone dying for lack of clothingor a needy person without a cloak,
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;
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;
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,
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.
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,
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,
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,
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;
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,
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,
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,
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,
I provided clothes for the poor,
Complete Jewish Bible
or if I saw a traveler needing clothing, someone in need who had no covering,
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;
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,
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
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,
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,
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;
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,
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;
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;
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;
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:
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:
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;
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;
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;
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;
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;
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;
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,
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,
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,
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;
If I saw one perishing for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
Revised Standard Version
if I have seen any one perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without covering;
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,
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?
"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,
If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering,
Contextual Overview
16 If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait: 17 If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof: 18 (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother’s womb:) 19 If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering: 20 If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep: 21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate: 22 Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken. 23 For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was unable to bear.
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
He sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the field, where he fed the flocks,
He sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the field, where he fed the flocks,
Genesis 31:5
And said to them: I see your father’s countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been with me.
And said to them: I see your father’s countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been with me.
Genesis 31:14
And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we any thing left among the goods and inheritance of our father’s house?
And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we any thing left among the goods and inheritance of our father’s house?
Genesis 31:24
And he saw in a dream God, saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.
And he saw in a dream God, saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.
Genesis 31:30
Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a longing after thy father’s house: why hast thou stolen away my gods?
Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a longing after thy father’s house: why hast thou stolen away my gods?
Genesis 31:32
But, whereas, thou chargest me with theft: with whomsoever thou shalt find thy gods, let him be slain before our brethren. Search, and if thou find any of thy things with me, take them away. Now when he said this, he knew not that Rachel had stolen the idols.
But, whereas, thou chargest me with theft: with whomsoever thou shalt find thy gods, let him be slain before our brethren. Search, and if thou find any of thy things with me, take them away. Now when he said this, he knew not that Rachel had stolen the idols.
Genesis 31:34
She, in haste, hid the idols under the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them: and when he had searched all the tent, and found nothing,
She, in haste, hid the idols under the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them: and when he had searched all the tent, and found nothing,
Genesis 35:2
And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed, and change your garments.
And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed, and change your garments.
Joshua 24:2
And he spoke thus to the people: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Your fathers dwelt of old on the other side of the river, Thare the father of Abraham, and Nachor: and they served strange gods.
And he spoke thus to the people: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Your fathers dwelt of old on the other side of the river, Thare the father of Abraham, and Nachor: and they served strange gods.
Judges 18:31
And the idol of Michas remained with them all the time that the house of God was in Silo. In those days there was no king in Israel.
And the idol of Michas remained with them all the time that the house of God was in Silo. In those days there was no king in Israel.
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.
