Job 31:17

17 si comedi buccellam meam solus et non comedit pupillus ex ea

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 numquid non in utero fecit me qui et illum operatus est et formavit in vulva unus

16 si negavi quod volebant pauperibus et oculos viduae expectare feci

17 si comedi buccellam meam solus et non comedit pupillus ex ea

18 quia ab infantia mea crevit mecum miseratio et de utero matris meae egressa est mecum

19 si despexi pereuntem eo quod non habuerit indumentum et absque operimento pauperem