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Job 31:15-17
New English Translation

15 Did not the one who made me in the womb make them?[a]
Did not the same one form us in the womb?
16 If I have refused to give the poor what they desired,[b]
or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
17 If I ate my morsel of bread myself,
and did not share any of it with orphans[c]—

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:15 tn Heb “him,” but the plural pronoun has been used in the translation to indicate that the referent is the servants mentioned in v. 13 (since the previous “him” in v. 14 refers to God).
  2. Job 31:16 tn Heb “kept the poor from [their] desire.”
  3. Job 31:17 tn Heb “and an orphan did not eat from it.”
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