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Job 31:16 Interlinear

“ If I have withheld from their desire the poor or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail”

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Job 31 with commentary

Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	אִם	H518		used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
2	אֶ֭מְנַע	H4513	If I have withheld	to debar (negatively or positively) from benefit or injury
3	מֵחֵ֣פֶץ	H2656	from their desire	pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely, a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind)
4	דַּלִּ֑ים	H1800	the poor	properly, dangling, i.e., (by implication) weak or thin
5	וְעֵינֵ֖י	H5869	or have caused the eyes	an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
6	אַלְמָנָ֣ה	H490	of the widow	a widow; also a desolate place
7	אֲכַלֶּֽה׃	H3615	to fail	to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitive (to complete, prepare, consume)

Job 31:16 (current) If I have withheld from their desire the poor or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail