27Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-30)Poor Job goes on here to upbraid his friends with their unkindness and the hard usage they gave him. He here appeals to themselves concerning several things which tended both to justify him and to condemn them. If they would but think impartially, and speak as they thought, they could not but own, I. That, though he was necessitous, yet he was not craving, nor burdensome to his friends. Those that…
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