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Job 31:17

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

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וְאֹכַ֣לveokhaland eatאָכַלconjunction, verb, qal, imperfect, 1st person, common, singular — “and eat”, an unfinished actionH398to eat (literally or figuratively)[idiom] at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, [idiom] freely, [idiom] in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, [idiom] quite.פִּתִּ֣יpitimeatפַּתnoun, common, feminine, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, singular — “meat”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH6595a bitmeat, morsel, piece.לְבַדִּ֑יlevadito apartבַּדpreposition, noun, common, masculine, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, singular — “to apart”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH905properly, separation; by implication, a part of the body, branch of atree, bar forcarrying; figuratively, chief of a city; especially (with prepositional prefix) as an adverb, apart, only, besidesalone, apart, bar, besides, branch, by self, of each alike, except, only, part, staff, strength.וְלֹאveloand no , -r,לֹאconjunction, particle, negative — “and no , -r,”H3808not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles[idiom] before, [phrase] or else, ere, [phrase] except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay, neither, never, no((-ne), -r, (-thing)), ([idiom] as though...,(can-), for) not (out of), of nought, otherwise, out of, [phrase] surely, [phrase] as trul…אָכַ֖לakhaleatאָכַלverb, qal, perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “eat”, a completed actionH398to eat (literally or figuratively)[idiom] at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, [idiom] freely, [idiom] in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, [idiom] quite.יָת֣וֹםyatomfatherlessיָתוֹםnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “fatherless”, the ordinary formH3490a bereaved personfatherless (child), orphan.מִמֶּֽנָּהmimenahfromמִןpreposition, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, feminine, singular — “from”H4480properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many sensesabove, after, among, at, because of, by (reason of), from (among), in, [idiom] neither, [idiom] nor, (out) of, over, since, [idiom] then, through, [idiom] whether, with.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

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

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American Standard Version (1901)

Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof

Young’s Literal Translation

And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,

World English Bible

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

Darby Translation

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

Douay-Rheims

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

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

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

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

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

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Εἰ δὲ καὶ τὸν ψωμόν μου ἔφαγον μόνος, καὶ οὐχὶ ὀρφανῷ μετέδωκα·