21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
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Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
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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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