Job 31:17

17 o si he comido mi bocado solo, y el huérfano no ha comido de él

Job 31:17 Meaning and Commentary

Job 31:17

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone
Though he had kept no doubt a plentiful table in the time of his prosperity suitable to his circumstances, yet had been no luxurious person, and therefore calls provisions a "morsel"; however, be it what it would, more or less, he did not eat it alone; what he had for himself the poor had a share of it with him, and the same he ate himself he gave to them:

and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:
meaning the poor fatherless: for as to the rich fatherless, it was no charity to feed them: this verse contradicts the charge exhibited against him, ( Job 22:7 ) .

Job 31:17 In-Context

15 ¿Acaso el que me hizo a mí en el seno materno, no lo hizo también a él? ¿No fue uno mismo el que nos formó en la matriz?

16 Si he impedido a los pobres su deseo, o he hecho desfallecer los ojos de la viuda,

17 o si he comido mi bocado solo, y el huérfano no ha comido de él

18 (aunque desde mi juventud él creció conmigo como con un padre, y a la viuda la guié desde mi infancia);

19 si he visto a alguno perecer por falta de ropa, y sin abrigo al necesitado,