Job 31:20 — King James Version← Study notes
“If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;”
Job 31:20 — Hebrew Interlinear
Hebrew · Job 31:208 words
ℹWords are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.
Church Fathers on Job 31:20
If I despised any passing by, because he had no covering, and a poor man without clothing, if his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep. Because he did not despise the poor, he displayed the virtue of humility; and because he covered him, of pitifulness. For these two virtues ought to be so linked together, as to be even supported by reciprocal practice; that so neither humility, when it reverences a fellow-creature, should abandon…
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