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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 31:20Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 31:208 words
HebrewMeaning
אִםʾim
ifconjH518
can- · doubtless · if · that) ···
לֹ֣אlōʾ
notparticleH3808
before · or else · except · ig ···
בֵרֲכ֣וּ/נִיbērăkwniy
they blessed meverbH1288
abundantly · altogether · at all · bless ···
חלצ/וḥlṣw
loinsnounH2504
reins
חֲלָצָ֑י/וḥălāṣāyw
loinsnounH2504
reins
וּ/מִ/גֵּ֥זwmigēz
and from the fleece ofconjH1488
mowing · mown grass
כְּ֝בָשַׂ/יkəbāśay
lambs mynounH3532
sheep
יִתְחַמָּֽםyitəḥamām
he warmed himselfverbH2552
get heat · be hot · (be · wax) warm (self ···
Words 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…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 21 §28
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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