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Job 31:16 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; "
Job 31:16
Verse in Context
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What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten
(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
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Job 31:1
"I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?"
Job 31:2
"For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?"
Job 31:3
"Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?"
Job 31:4
"Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?"
Job 31:5
"If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;"
Job 31:6
"Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity."
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