Job 31:17

17 jamás el pan me lo he comido solo,sin querer compartirlo 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 El mismo Dios que me formó en el vientrefue el que los formó también a ellos;nos dio forma en el seno materno.

16 »Jamás he desoído los ruegos de los pobres,ni he dejado que las viudas desfallezcan;

17 jamás el pan me lo he comido solo,sin querer compartirlo con los huérfanos.

18 Desde mi juventud he sido un padre para ellos;a las viudas las he guiado desde mi nacimiento.

19 Si he dejado que alguien muera por falta de vestido,o que un necesitado no tenga qué ponerse;