Job 31:21

In 11 translations

BSB

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

KJV

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

WEB

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;

ASV

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:

LSV

If I have waved my hand at the fatherless, || When I see [him] in the gate of my court,

YLT

If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in [him] the gate of my court,

DBY

If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:

DRC

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:

GNV

If I haue lift vp mine hande against the fatherlesse, when I saw that I might helpe him in the gate,

JPS

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;

LXXE

if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior to his:

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WLC

אִם־הֲנִיפ֣וֹתִי עַל־יָת֣וֹם יָדִ֑י כִּֽי־אֶרְאֶ֥ה בַ֝שַּׁ֗עַר עֶזְרָתִֽי׃

LXX-Br

Εἰ ἐπῆρα ὀρφανῷ χεῖρα, πεποιθὼς ὅτι πολλή μοι βοήθεια περίεστιν·

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• Job 22:9You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
• Job 29:12because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
• Proverbs 23:10–11Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless, for 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.
• Job 6:27You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.
• Job 24:9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
• 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.
• Micah 2:1–2Woe 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. They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of…

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