Job 36:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.

Job 36:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 140:12
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
Psalms 72:12-14
For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper. …
Job 5:15
But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Exodus 22:22-24
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. …
Psalms 72:4
He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Alms Atheism Attributes of God Beggars God Guidance Lord

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-14)

Elihu, being to speak on God’s behalf, and particularly to ascribe righteousness to his Maker, here shows that the disposals of divine Providence are all, not only according to the eternal counsels of his will, but according to the eternal rules of equity. God acts as a righteous governor, for, I. He does not think it below him to take notice of the meanest of his subjects, nor does poverty or obs…

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

(vv. 6)

6. right ... poor--He espouses the cause of the afflicted.