What does Job 31:16 mean?

Job 31:16 highlights themes such as faith and obedience when read in context.

How should I apply Job 31:16 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

14What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

17Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

18(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

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