Job 31:21
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If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:

lifted

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.

when

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:

Lexicon
if
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

I have lifted
הֲנִיפ֣וֹתִי (hă·nî·p̄ō·w·ṯî)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5130: To move to and fro, wave, sprinkle

up my hand
יָדִ֑י (yā·ḏî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3027: A hand

against
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the fatherless
יָת֣וֹם (yā·ṯō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3490: A bereaved person

because
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

I saw
אֶרְאֶ֥ה (’er·’eh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7200: To see

that I had support
עֶזְרָתִֽי׃ (‘ez·rā·ṯî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5833: Help, helper, assistance

in the gate,
בַ֝שַּׁ֗עַר (ḇaš·ša·‘ar)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8179: An opening, door, gate


Additional Translations
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:

if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior to his:

If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate:

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

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in him the gate of my court,
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