7Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
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Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-14)Eliphaz and his companions had condemned Job, in general, as a wicked man and a hypocrite; but none of them had descended to particulars, nor drawn up any articles of impeachment against him, until Eliphaz did so here, where he positively and expressly charges him with many high crimes and misdemeanours, which, if he had really been guilty of them, might well have justified them in their harsh cen…
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