Job 31:21
Good News Translation
If I have ever cheated an orphan, knowing I could win in court,

New Revised Standard Version
if I have raised my hand against the orphan, because I saw I had supporters at the gate;

Contemporary English Version
If I have ever raised my arm to threaten an orphan when the power was mine,

New American Bible
If I have raised my hand against the innocent because I saw that I had supporters at the gate—

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Job 6:27 You rush in upon the fatherless, and you endeavour to overthrow your friend.

Job 22:9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.

Job 24:9 They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.

Job 29:12 Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper.

Proverbs 23:10,11 Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless: . . .

Jeremiah 5:28 They are grown gross and fat: and have most wickedly transgressed my words. They have not judged the cause of the widow, they have not managed the cause of the fatherless, and they have not judged the judgment of the poor.

Ezekiel 22:7 They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widow in thee.

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Micah 2:1,2 Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee. . . .

Micah 7:3 The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled it.

Context
Job's Final Appeal
20If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep: 21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:22Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.…
Cross References
Job 29:7
When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?

Job 29:12
Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper.

Job 31:17
If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:

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

Job 31:20
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