Job 31:16

Filipino Cebuano Bible

16 Kong ang kabus gidid-an ko sa ilang gikinahanglan, Kun gikawang ko ang mga mata sa balo nga babaye,

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withheld: Job 22:7-9, Deuteronomy 15:7-10, Psalms 112:9, Luke 16:21, Acts 11:29, Galatians 2:10

the eyes: Deuteronomy 28:32, Psalms 69:3, Psalms 119:82, Psalms 119:123, Isaiah 38:14, Lamentations 4:17

Reciprocal: Leviticus 23:22 - General Deuteronomy 14:29 - the stranger Deuteronomy 24:13 - deliver Deuteronomy 24:19 - may bless Deuteronomy 26:13 - Levite Ruth 2:14 - At mealtime Nehemiah 8:10 - send Job 11:20 - the eyes Job 22:9 - widows Job 24:3 - drive Job 24:4 - turn Job 24:21 - doeth not Job 30:25 - was Psalms 37:21 - righteous Psalms 41:1 - Blessed Psalms 68:5 - A father Psalms 112:5 - showeth Proverbs 11:25 - liberal soul Proverbs 22:9 - He that hath a bountiful eye Proverbs 22:22 - oppress Proverbs 31:20 - she reacheth Isaiah 32:8 - the liberal Ezekiel 18:7 - hath given Matthew 5:7 - are Matthew 5:42 - General Matthew 6:2 - when Matthew 14:16 - they Matthew 23:14 - for ye Matthew 25:17 - he also Matthew 25:35 - I was an Luke 6:38 - and it Luke 14:13 - call Acts 6:1 - their Romans 12:8 - giveth 1 Timothy 5:3 - widows James 2:15 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire,.... Their reasonable desires, and which it was in his power to grant; as when they desired a piece of bread, being hungry, or clothes to cover them, being naked; but not unreasonable desires, seeking and asking great things for themselves, or unlimited and unbounded ones, such as the two sons of Zebedee desired of Christ, Mark 10:35;

or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; through long waiting for, and expecting help and succour from him, and at last disappointed. Job did not use the widow in such a manner as to give her reason to hope for relief or counsel from him she came for, and make her wait long, and then send her away empty, as he was charged, Job 22:9; but he soon dispatched her, by granting her what she sued to him for.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If I have withheld the poor from their desire - Job now turns to another class of virtues, regarded also as of great importance in the patriarchal ages, kindness to the poor and the afflicted; to the fatherless and the widow. He appeals to his former life on this subject; affirms that he had a good conscience in the recollection of his dealings with them, and impliedly declares that it could not have been for any deficiency in the exercise of these virtues that his calamities had come upon him. The meaning here is, that he had not denied to the poor their wish. If they had come and desired bread of him, he had not withheld it; see Job 22:7.

Or caused the eyes of the widow to fail - That is, I have not frustrated her hopes, or disappointed her expectations, when she has looked intently upon me, and desired my aid. The “failing of the eyes” refers to failing of the object of their expectation; or the expression means that she had not looked to him in vain; see Job 11:20.