Job 31:20
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,.... Either in a menacing way, threatening what he would do to them; which, from a man of wealth and authority, a civil magistrate, a judge, is very…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
If his loins have not blessed me - This is a personification by which the part of the body that had been clothed by the benevolence of Job, is supposed to speak and render him thanks.
Eliphaz had particularly charged Job with unmercifulness to the poor (Job 22:6, etc.): Thou hast withholden bread from the hungry, stripped the naked of their clothing, and sent widows away empty. One…