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Job 31:21
Job 31:21 is verse 21 of Job chapter 31, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
King James Version
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
World English Bible
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;
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Job 31:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible
19 if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,
20 if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,
21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
22 then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.
23 For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 6:27You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.
Job 22:9You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
Job 24:9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
Job 29:12because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
Proverbs 23:10Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
Proverbs 23:11for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you.
Jeremiah 5:28They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
Ezekiel 22:7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
Micah 2:1Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
Micah 2:2They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
Micah 7:3Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.