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Job’s Final Appeal

Job 31:19

In 11 translations

BSB
if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,
KJV
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
WEB
if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
ASV
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;
LSV
If I see [any] perishing without clothing, || And there is no covering for the needy,
YLT
If I see [any] perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy,
DBY
If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;
DRC
If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:
GNV
If I haue seene any perish for want of clothing, or any poore without couering,
JPS
If I have seen any wanderer in want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
LXXE
And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him;

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
אִם־אֶרְאֶ֣ה א֭וֹבֵד מִבְּלִ֣י לְב֑וּשׁ וְאֵ֥ין כְּ֝ס֗וּת לָאֶבְיֽוֹן׃We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
LXX-Br
Εἰ δὲ καὶ ὑπερεῖδον γυμνὸν ἀπολλύμενον, καὶ οὐκ ἠμφίασα αὐτόν·

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 22:6For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
  • 1 John 3:18Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
  • Job 29:13The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.
  • Luke 3:11John replied, “Whoever has two tunics should share with him who has none, and whoever has food should do the same.”
  • Acts 9:39So Peter got up and went with them. On his arrival, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood around him, weeping and showing him the tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with…
  • James 2:16If one of you tells him, “Go in peace; stay warm and well fed,” but does not provide for his physical needs, what good is that?
  • Isaiah 58:7Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
  • Job 24:4They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
  • Matthew 25:43I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, I was naked and you did not clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’
  • 2 Chronicles 28:15Then the men who were designated by name arose, took charge of the captives, and provided from the plunder clothing for the naked. They clothed them, gave them sandals and food and drink, anointed their wounds, and put…
  • Matthew 25:36I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.’

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