Job 31:17 - Exposition

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof . With the widow, the fatherless is usually conjoined, as an equal object of compassion (see Exodus 22:22 ; Deuteronomy 10:18 ; Psalms 68:5 ; Isaiah 1:17 ; Jeremiah 22:3 ; Ezekiel 22:7 ; Zechariah 7:10 , etc.). Eliphaz had specially charged Job with oppression of the fatherless ( Job 22:9 ), and his charge had been denied by Job ( Job 29:12 ). He now claims to have always shared his bread with orphans, and made them partakers or his abundance.