Job 31:17

17 y si comí mi bocado solo, y no comió de él el huérfano

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 ¿Por ventura el que en el vientre me hizo a mí, no lo hizo a él? ¿Y no nos dispuso un mismo autor en la matriz

16 Si estorbé el contento de los pobres, e hice desfallecer los ojos de la viuda

17 y si comí mi bocado solo, y no comió de él el huérfano

18 (porque desde mi juventud creció conmigo el huérfano como con padre, y desde el vientre de mi madre fui guía de la viuda)

19 si he visto que pereciera alguno sin vestido, y al menesteroso sin cobertura