Job 31:20
New International Version
and their hearts did not bless me for warming them with the fleece from my sheep,

New Living Translation
did they not praise me for providing wool clothing to keep them warm?

English Standard Version
if his body has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep,

Berean Standard Bible
if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,

King James Bible
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

New King James Version
If his heart has not blessed me, And if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

New American Standard Bible
If his waist has not thanked me, And if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep,

NASB 1995
If his loins have not thanked me, And if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep,

NASB 1977
If his loins have not thanked me, And if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep,

Legacy Standard Bible
If his loins have not blessed me, And if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep,

Amplified Bible
If his loins have not thanked and blessed me [for clothing them], And if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep,

Christian Standard Bible
if he did not bless me while warming himself with the fleece from my sheep,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
if he did not bless me while warming himself with the fleece from my sheep,

American Standard Version
If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
If they were not reared on my knees or warmed from the wool of my sheep

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and if the poor did not bless me, and their shoulders were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;

Contemporary English Version
and I was praised for supplying woolen garments to keep them warm.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:

English Revised Version
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
(If his body didn't bless me, or the wool from my sheep didn't keep him warm....)

Good News Translation
I would give him clothing made of wool that had come from my own flock of sheep. Then he would praise me with all his heart.

International Standard Version
if he hadn't thanked me from the bottom of his heart, if he had not been warmed by wool from my sheep,

JPS Tanakh 1917
If his loins have not blessed me, And if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

Literal Standard Version
If his loins have not blessed me, | And from the fleece of my sheep | He does not warm himself,

Majority Standard Bible
if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,

New American Bible
Whose limbs have not blessed me when warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

NET Bible
whose heart did not bless me as he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep,

New Revised Standard Version
whose loins have not blessed me, and who was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

New Heart English Bible
if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;

Webster's Bible Translation
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

World English Bible
if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;

Young's Literal Translation
If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Job's Final Appeal
19if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak, 20if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep, 21if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,…

Cross References
Job 22:6
For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.

Job 31:19
if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,

Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

Isaiah 58:7
Isn't it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

Ezekiel 18:16
He does not oppress another, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.


Treasury of Scripture

If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

Job 29:11
When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:

Deuteronomy 24:13
In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.

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1. Job makes a solemn protestation of his integrity in several duties














Verse 20. - If his loins have not blessed me (see above, Job 29:11, 13), and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep. Clothed, i.e., with a garment spun from wool yielded by my own sheep. A great sheikh like Job would keep in store many such garments, ready to be given to such as were naked or poorly clad, when they came under his observation (Isaiah 58:7).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
if
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

his heart
חֲלָצָ֑יו (ḥă·lā·ṣāw)
Noun - mdc | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2504: The loins

has not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

blessed me
בֵרֲכ֣וּנִי (ḇê·ră·ḵū·nî)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural | first person common singular
Strong's 1288: To kneel, to bless God, man, to curse

for warming him
יִתְחַמָּֽם׃ (yiṯ·ḥam·mām)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2552: To be or become warm

with the fleece
וּמִגֵּ֥ז (ū·mig·gêz)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1488: A fleece, mown grass

of my sheep,
כְּ֝בָשַׂי (kə·ḇā·śay)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3532: A lamb


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