Job 31:21 meaning and explanation
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
Job 31:21, Berean Standard Bible
Explanation preview
Job is finishing his final defense speech, swearing an oath of innocence before God. He lists sins he claims never to have committed, and here he names the temptation of power: harming an orphan because he saw he had backing in the city gate, where legal cases were heard and elders judged.
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