King James Version
Job 31:19 in the King James Version says “If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;” — study this verse from Job chapter 31 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;”
Job 31:19 · KJV
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) her: that is, the widow
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
KJV Study — Public Domain
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
“If I have seen”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
“any perish”
H6properly, to wander away, i.e., lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
properly, failure, i.e., nothing or destruction; usually (with preposition) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc
“for want of clothing”
H3830a garment (literally or figuratively); by implication (euphemistically) a wife
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