Job 22:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Job 22:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 22:7
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Job 24:21
He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
Job 24:3
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Isaiah 10:2
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Job 31:21
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Alms Beggars Family Fatherless Gleaning Heir Minors

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. empty--without their wants being relieved (Ge 31:42). The Mosaic law especially protected the widow and fatherless (Ex 22:22); the violation of it in their case by the great is a complaint of the prophets (Is 1:17). arms--supports, helps, on which one leans (Ho 7:15). Thou hast robbed them of their only stay. Job replies in Job 29:11-16.