Job 22:7
Good News Translation
You refused water to those who were tired, and refused to feed those who were hungry.

New Revised Standard Version
You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

Contemporary English Version
And you refused bread and water to the hungry and thirsty,

New American Bible
To the thirsty you give no water to drink, and from the hungry you withhold bread;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.

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Job 31:17 If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:

Deuteronomy 15:7-11 If one of thy brethren that dwelleth within thy gates of thy city in the land which the Lord thy God will give thee, come to poverty: thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor close thy hand, . . .

Psalm 112:9 He hath distributed, he hath given to the poor: his justice remaineth for ever and ever: his horn shall be exalted in glory.

Proverbs 11:24,25 The soul that blesseth, shall be made fat: and he that inebriateth, shall be inebriated also himself. . . .

Proverbs 19:17 He that hath mercy on the poor, lendeth to the Lord: and he will repay him.

Isaiah 58:7,10 Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own flesh. . . .

Ezekiel 18:7,16 And hath not wronged any man: but hath restored the pledge to the debtor, hath taken nothing away by violence: hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment: . . .

Matthew 25:42 For I was hungry and you gave me not to eat: I was thirsty and you gave me not to drink.

Romans 12:20 But if the enemy be hungry, give him to eat; if he thirst, give him to drink. For, doing this, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

Context
Eliphaz Exhorts Job
6For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing. 7Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.8In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it.…
Cross References
Job 31:16
If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:

Job 31:17
If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:

Job 31:31
If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?

Job 22:6
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