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Job 31:20
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did they not praise me for providing wool clothing to keep them warm?
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
If his loins haven't blessed me, And if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
That person's heart blessed me, because I warmed him with the wool of my sheep.
whose heart did not bless me as he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep,
If his loins have not blessed me, and [if] he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
If his heart hasn't blessed me, If he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;
If his loins have not thanked and blessed me [for clothing them], And if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep,
if his body has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep,
if hise sidis blessiden not me, and was not maad hoot of the fleeces of my scheep;
if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,
and I was praised for supplying woolen garments to keep them warm.
If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;
who didn't bless me from his heart for being warmed with the fleece from my sheep,
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;
I always gave them something to wear. I used the wool from my own sheep to make them warm. And they thanked me with all their heart.
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
If his loynes haue not blessed me, and if hee were not warmed with the fleece of my sheepe:
if he has not thanked me for the clothing on his body, and been made warm with the wool of my sheep,
whose loins have not blessed me, and who was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe,
(But they were reared upon my knees, and were warmed with the fleece of my sheep);
I would give him clothing made of wool that had come from my own flock of sheep. Then he would praise me with all his heart.
If his loins did not bless me, or if, with the fleece of my lambs, he did not warm himself;
If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:
if his loins have not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe:
and if the poor did not bless me, and their shoulders were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;
if he did not bless mewhile warming himself with the fleece from my sheep,
If his heart hasn't blessed me, If he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;
if his loins have not blessed me, or by means of my sheep's fleece he has warmed himself,
if his loins have not blessed me, and he warmed himself with the fleece of my flock;
If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,
whose sydes thanked me not, because he was warmed wt ye woll of my shepe?
If his waist has not thanked me, And if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep,
If his heart [fn] has not blessed me,And if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
If his loins have not thanked me, And if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep,
If his loins have not blessed me,And if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Job 29:11, Deuteronomy 24:13
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 14:22 - thanked Nehemiah 11:2 - blessed Job 22:6 - stripped Job 24:7 - the naked Job 34:28 - they Proverbs 27:26 - General Isaiah 58:7 - the naked Matthew 25:36 - Naked Acts 9:39 - and showing
Gill's Notes on the Bible
If his loins have not blessed me,.... Which were girded and covered with garments he gave him; which, as often as he put on and girded his loins with, put him in mind of his generous benefactor, and this put him upon sending up an ejaculatory wish to heaven, that all happiness and blessedness might attend him, who had so comfortably clothed him; see Job 29:13;
and [if] he were [not] warmed with the fleece of my sheep; not with a fleece of wool as taken off the back of the sheep, or with a sheep's skin, having the wool on it, but with it, as made up into cloth; with a woollen garment, which was a kind of clothing that very early obtained, and is what is warm and comfortable, see Deuteronomy 22:11. Job clothed the naked, not with gay apparel, which was not necessary, but with decent and useful raiment, and not with the fleece of other men's sheep, but with the fleece of his own sheep, or with cloth made of the wool of his own flock, giving what was his own and not others; which always should be observed in acts of charity; see 2 Samuel 12:4. Thus Christ, the antitype of Job, feeds the poor and the fatherless whom he finds, though he does not leave them so; it is at his own table, and with his own bread, with provisions of his own making; and clothes them with the robe of his righteousness, and garments of salvation, which is a clothing and a covering to them, and secures them from perishing, and causes joy and gladness in them, Isaiah 61:10.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
If his loins have not blessed me - This is a personification by which the part of the body that had been clothed by the benevolence of Job, is supposed to speak and render him thanks.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 31:20. If his loins have not blessed me — This is a very delicate touch: the part that was cold and shivering is now covered with warm woollen. It feels the comfort; and by a fine prosopopoeia, is represented as blessing him who furnished the clothing.
