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Job 31

Job 31:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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If I have withheld
mana` (Hebrew #4513)
to debar (negatively or positively) from benefit or injury
KJV usage: deny, keep (back), refrain, restrain, withhold.
Pronounce: maw-nah'
Origin: a primitive root
the poor
dal (Hebrew #1800)
properly, dangling, i.e. (by implication) weak or thin
KJV usage: lean, needy, poor (man), weaker.
Pronounce: dal
Origin: from 1809
from their desire
chephets (Hebrew #2656)
pleasure; hence (abstractly) desire; concretely, a valuable thing; hence (by extension) a matter (as something in mind)
KJV usage: acceptable, delight(-some), desire, things desired, matter, pleasant(-ure), purpose, willingly.
Pronounce: khay'-fets
Origin: from 2654
, or have caused the eyes
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
of the widow
'almanah (Hebrew #490)
a widow; also a desolate place
KJV usage: desolate house (palace), widow.
Pronounce: al-maw-naw'
Origin: fem of 488
to fail
kalah (Hebrew #3615)
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
KJV usage: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when ... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, X fully, X have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.
Pronounce: kaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
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Cross References

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withheld.
Job 22:7‑9• 7Thou hast not given water to the fainting to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
 8But the powerful man, he had the land; and the man of high rank dwelt in it.
 9Widows hast thou sent empty away, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. (Job 22:7‑9)
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Deut. 15:7‑10• 7If there be amongst you a poor man, any one of thy brethren in one of thy gates, in thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy brother in need;
 8but thou shalt open thy hand bountifully unto him, and shalt certainly lend him on pledge what is sufficient for his need, in that which he lacketh.
 9Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry against thee to Jehovah, and it be sin in thee.
 10Thou shalt bountifully give unto him, and thy heart shall not be evil-disposed when thou givest unto him; because for this thing Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy works, and in all the business of thy hand. (Deut. 15:7‑10)
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Psa. 112:9• 9He scattereth abroad, he giveth to the needy; his righteousness abideth for ever: his horn shall be exalted with honour. (Psa. 112:9)
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Luke 16:21• 21and desiring to be filled with the crumbs which fell from the table of the rich man; but the dogs also coming licked his sores. (Luke 16:21)
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Acts 11:29• 29And they determined, according as any one of the disciples was well off, each of them to send to the brethren who dwelt in Judaea, to minister to them; (Acts 11:29)
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Gal. 2:10• 10only that we should remember the poor, which same thing also I was diligent to do. (Gal. 2:10)
the eyes.
Deut. 28:32• 32Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and languish for them all the day long; and there shall be no power in thy hand to help it. (Deut. 28:32)
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Psa. 69:3• 3I am weary with my crying, my throat is parched; mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. (Psa. 69:3)
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Psa. 119:82,123• 82Mine eyes fail for thy *word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
 123Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the *word of thy righteousness. (Psa. 119:82,123)
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Isa. 38:14• 14Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned as a dove; mine eyes failed with looking upward: Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me. (Isa. 38:14)
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Lam. 4:17• 17Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save. (Lam. 4:17)

J. N. Darby Translation

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