Job 31:19
Good News Translation
When I found someone in need, too poor to buy clothes,

New Revised Standard Version
if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or a poor person without covering,

Contemporary English Version
I provided clothes for the poor,

New American Bible
If I have seen a wanderer without clothing, or a poor man without covering,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:

Job 22:6 For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing.

2 Chronicles 28:15 And the men, whom we mentioned above, rose up and took the captives, and with the spoils clothed all them that were naked: and when they had clothed and shod them, and refreshed them with meat and drink, and anointed them because of their labour, and had taken care of them, they set such of them as could not walk, and were feeble, upon beasts, and brought them to Jericho the city of palm trees to their brethren, and they returned to Samaria.

Isaiah 58:7 Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own flesh.

Matthew 25:36,43 Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me. . . .

Luke 3:11 And he answering, said to them: He that hath two coats, let him give to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do in like manner.

Acts 9:39 And Peter rising up went with them. And when he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber. And all the widows stood about him, weeping and shewing him the coats and garments which Dorcas made them.

James 2:16 And one of you say to them: Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; yet give them not those things that are necessary for the body, what shall it profit?

1 John 3:18 My little children, let us not love in word nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Context
Job's Final Appeal
18(For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb:) 19If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:20If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:…
Cross References
Job 22:6
For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing.

Job 24:4
They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth.

Job 29:13
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.

Job 31:18
(For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb:)

Job 31:20
If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:

Isaiah 58:7
Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own flesh.

Job 31:18
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