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New Century Version

Job 31:19

I have not let anyone die for lack of clothes or let a needy person go without a coat.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Beneficence;   Integrity;   Poor;   Temptation;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflicted, Duty toward the;   Garments;   Love to Man;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hospitality;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Tabitha;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   Job, the Book of;   Poor, Orphan, Widow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Quotations (2);  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cover;   Poor;   Wisdom;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sheep;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
if I have seen anyone dying for lack of clothingor a needy person without a cloak,
Hebrew Names Version
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;
King James Version
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
English Standard Version
if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or the needy without covering,
New English Translation
If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without a coat,
Amplified Bible
If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, Or any poor person without covering,
New American Standard Bible
If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering,
World English Bible
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;
Geneva Bible (1587)
If I haue seene any perish for want of clothing, or any poore without couering,
Legacy Standard Bible
If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing,Or that the needy had no covering,
Berean Standard Bible
if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,
Contemporary English Version
I provided clothes for the poor,
Complete Jewish Bible
or if I saw a traveler needing clothing, someone in need who had no covering,
Darby Translation
If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;
Easy-to-Read Version
Whenever I found people suffering because they didn't have clothes or saw a poor man with no coat,
George Lamsa Translation
If I have seen anyone perishing for want of clothing, or any poor without covering
Good News Translation
When I found someone in need, too poor to buy clothes,
Lexham English Bible
if I have seen the one who perishes because of no clothing or that there is no covering for the poor,
Literal Translation
If I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or there was no covering for the needy;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Haue I sene eny man perish thorow nakednes & want of clothinge? Or, eny poore man for lack of rayment,
American Standard Version
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;
Bible in Basic English
If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
If I have seen any wanderer in want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
King James Version (1611)
If I haue seene any perish for want of cloathing, or any poore without couering:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If I haue seene any perishe for want of clothing, or any poore for lake of rayment:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him;
English Revised Version
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
if Y dispiside a man passynge forth, for he hadde not a cloth, and a pore man with out hilyng;
Update Bible Version
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;
Webster's Bible Translation
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
New King James Version
If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, Or any poor man without covering;
New Living Translation
Whenever I saw the homeless without clothes and the needy with nothing to wear,
New Life Bible
if I have seen anyone die because he had no clothing, or left any poor person without clothes,
New Revised Standard
if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or a poor person without covering,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If I saw one perishing for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
Douay-Rheims Bible
If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:
Revised Standard Version
if I have seen any one perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without covering;
Young's Literal Translation
If I see [any] perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy,
THE MESSAGE
"Have I ever left a poor family shivering in the cold when they had no warm clothes? Didn't the poor bless me when they saw me coming, knowing I'd brought coats from my closet?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering,

Contextual Overview

16 "I have never refused the appeals of the poor or let widows give up hope while looking for help. 17 I have not kept my food to myself but have given it to the orphans. 18 Since I was young, I have been like a father to the orphans. From my birth I guided the widows. 19 I have not let anyone die for lack of clothes or let a needy person go without a coat. 20 That person's heart blessed me, because I warmed him with the wool of my sheep. 21 I have never hurt an orphan even when I knew I could win in court. 22 If I have, then let my arm fall off my shoulder and be broken at the joint. 23 I fear destruction from God, and I fear his majesty, so I could not do such things.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 22:6, 2 Chronicles 28:15, Isaiah 58:7, Matthew 25:36, Matthew 25:43, Luke 3:11, Acts 9:39, James 2:16, 1 John 3:18

Reciprocal: Job 24:7 - the naked Job 29:13 - ready Job 34:28 - they Ezekiel 18:16 - but hath Hebrews 13:2 - not

Cross-References

Genesis 31:4
So Jacob told Rachel and Leah to meet him in the field where he kept his flocks.
Genesis 31:5
He said to them, "I have seen that your father is not as friendly with me as he used to be, but the God of my father has been with me.
Genesis 31:14
Rachel and Leah answered Jacob, "Our father has nothing to give us when he dies.
Genesis 31:24
That night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and said, "Be careful! Do not say anything to Jacob, good or bad."
Genesis 31:30
I know you want to go back to your home, but why did you steal my idols?"
Genesis 31:32
If you find anyone here who has taken your idols, that person will be killed! Your relatives will be my witnesses. You may look for anything that belongs to you and take anything that is yours." (Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen Laban's idols.)
Genesis 31:34
Rachel had hidden the idols inside her camel's saddle and was sitting on them. Although Laban looked through the whole tent, he did not find them.
Genesis 35:2
So Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods you have, and make yourselves clean, and change your clothes.
Joshua 24:2
Then Joshua said to all the people, "Here's what the Lord , the God of Israel, says to you: ‘A long time ago your ancestors lived on the other side of the Euphrates River. Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor, worshiped other gods.
Judges 18:31
The people of Dan set up the idols Micah had made as long as the Holy Tent of God was in Shiloh.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing,.... A man may be in such poor circumstances as to want proper clothing to cover his naked body with, and preserve it from the inclemencies of the weather, and for want of it be ready to perish or die with cold. Job denies he had seen any such; not that he had never seen persons in such perishing circumstances; but he had not seen them as to "despise" them, as the Vulgate Latin version, as to have them in contempt, or look at them with disdain because of their poverty and rags, or sordid apparel; or so as to "overlook" them, as the Septuagint version, to neglect them, and to take no notice of them, and make no provision for their clothing, a warm and comfortable garment, as in Job 31:20:

or any poor without covering; without clothing sufficient to cover himself with, and keep him warm; Job had seen such objects, but he did not leave them in such a condition; he saw them, and had compassion on them, and clothed them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If I have seen any perish ... - He turns to another virtue of the same general class - that of providing for the poor. The meaning is clear, that he had always assisted the poor and needy.


 
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