Job 31:17
Modern Translations
New International Version
if I have kept my bread to myself, not sharing it with the fatherless--

New Living Translation
Have I been stingy with my food and refused to share it with orphans?

English Standard Version
or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

Berean Study Bible
if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—

New American Standard Bible
Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the orphan has not shared it

NASB 1995
Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the orphan has not shared it

NASB 1977
Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the orphan has not shared it

Amplified Bible
Or have eaten my morsel [of food] alone, And did not share it with the orphan

Christian Standard Bible
if I have eaten my few crumbs alone without letting the fatherless eat any of it —

Holman Christian Standard Bible
if I have eaten my few crumbs alone without letting the fatherless eat any of it--

Contemporary English Version
and I have always shared my food with orphans.

Good News Translation
or let orphans go hungry while I ate.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
or have eaten my food alone without letting the orphan eat any of it....

International Standard Version
if I ate my meals by myself without feeding orphans,

NET Bible
If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans--
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

New King James Version
Or eaten my morsel by myself, So that the fatherless could not eat of it

King James 2000 Bible
Or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it;

New Heart English Bible
or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

World English Bible
or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

American King James Version
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;

American Standard Version
Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

A Faithful Version
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it--

Darby Bible Translation
Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,

English Revised Version
Or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

Webster's Bible Translation
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten of it;

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Or haue eaten my morsels alone, and the fatherles hath not eaten thereof,

Bishops' Bible of 1568
If I haue eaten my morsell alone, that ye fatherlesse hath not eaten therof:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Haue I eaten my porcion alone, that the fatherles hath had no parte with me?
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And I eat my morsel by myself, "" And the orphan has nothing [to] eat of it,

Young's Literal Translation
And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,

Smith's Literal Translation
And eating my morsel alone, and the orphan ate not from it;

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:

Catholic Public Domain Version
if I have eaten my morsel of food alone, while orphans have not eaten from it;

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
If I ate my bread alone and the orphan did not eat of it

Lamsa Bible
Or have eaten my bread alone, and the orphans did not eat of it

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof--

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And if too I ate my morsel alone, and did not impart of it to the orphan;
















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