Job 31:17

17 ¿He sido tacaño con mi comida
o me he negado a compartirla con los huérfanos?

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 Pues Dios me creó tanto a mí como a mis siervos;
nos formó a ambos en el vientre.

16 »¿He rehusado ayudar al pobre
o he acabado con las esperanzas de las viudas?

17 ¿He sido tacaño con mi comida
o me he negado a compartirla con los huérfanos?

18 No, desde la niñez he cuidado a los huérfanos como un padre,
y toda mi vida me he ocupado de las viudas.

19 Cuando veía sin vestido a los que no tienen hogar
y a los necesitados sin nada que ponerse,