KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 31:18–22
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Job 31:18
18(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)
18(For from my youth hee was brought vp with me as with a father, and I haue guided †her from my mothers wombe.)
- That is, the widow,
Job 31:19
19If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
19If I haue seene any perish for want of cloathing, or any poore without couering:
Job 31:20
20If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
20If his loynes haue not blessed me, and if hee were not warmed with the fleece of my sheepe:
Job 31:21
21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
21If I haue lift vp my hand against the fatherlesse, when I saw my helpe in the gate:
Job 31:22
22Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
22 Then let mine arme fall from my shoulder-blade, and mine arme be broken from the ‖bone.
- Or, the channell bone.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 31:18
The part of life that suceeeds to childhood.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Led; conducted; directed in the way; instructed and directed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A female parent; figuratively, a source, chief city, or maternal relation.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 31:19
One, some, or every member or amount of an indefinite number or quantity, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Lack or need; poverty or deficiency; as a verb, to lack or be without.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Garments or covering for the body; figuratively, that which covers or invests.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Lacking material means; needy, afflicted, lowly, or humble, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Outside; not within; lacking; free from; or in the absence of.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Job 31:20
Favored by God; happy or spiritually prosperous; or praised, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Moderately heated; made ardent; excited.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The coat of wool shorn from a sheep at one time.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 31:21
The part of the body at the end of the arm; figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Aid, assistance, or relief; as a verb, to aid, assist, or support.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 31:22
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To descend, drop, or lose an upright position; to come upon, attack, happen, decline, fail, or be overthrown; as a noun, descent, ruin, or overthrow, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The upper joint of the arm; figuratively, a place of bearing, support, or responsibility.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The cutting part of a tool or weapon; also the leaf or stalk of a plant.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 19
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Open the full verse study6For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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Open the full verse study18My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
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Open the full verse study15And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
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Open the full verse study39Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.
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Open the full verse study7Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
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Open the full verse study16And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
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Open the full verse study4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
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Open the full verse study13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
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Open the full verse study11He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
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Open the full verse study36Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
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Open the full verse study43I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
From verse 20
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Open the full verse study13In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God.
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Open the full verse study11When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
From verse 21
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Open the full verse study9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
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Open the full verse study12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
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Open the full verse study7In 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 vexed the fatherless and the widow.
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Open the full verse study28They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
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Open the full verse study9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
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Open the full verse study27Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
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Open the full verse study1WOE to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
2And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
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Open the full verse study3¶ That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
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Open the full verse study10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
11For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
From verse 22
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Open the full verse study10Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
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Open the full verse study40Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
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Open the full verse study15And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
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Open the full verse study22The Lord God of gods, the Lord God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the Lord, (save us not this day,)
23That we have built us an altar to turn from following the Lord, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the Lord himself require it;
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Open the full verse study6If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
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Open the full verse study4If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
5Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
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