16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
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Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: …
He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-23)Eliphaz had particularly charged Job with unmercifulness to the poor (Job 22:6-9): Thou hast withholden bread from the hungry, stripped the naked of their clothing , and sent widows away empty . One would think he could not have been so very positive and express in his charge unless there had been some truth in it, some ground, for it; and yet it appears, by Job’s protestation, that it was utterly…
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