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THE MESSAGE
Job 22:9
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You sent widows away empty-handed,and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
You have sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
But you sent widows away empty-handed, and you mistreated orphans.
you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.
"You have sent widows away empty-handed, And the arms (strength) of the fatherless have been broken.
"You have sent widows away empty, And the strength of orphans has been crushed.
You have sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, & the armes of the fatherles were broken.
You have sent widows away empty,And the might of the orphans has been crushed.
You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
You have turned away widows and have broken the arms of orphans.
you sent widows away empty-handed and left the arms of orphans crushed.
Widows hast thou sent empty away, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
But maybe you sent widows away without giving them anything. And maybe you took advantage of orphans.
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless you have broken.
You not only refused to help widows, but you also robbed and mistreated orphans.
You have sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of orphans were crushed.
You have sent widows away empty, and have crushed the arms of orphans.
Thou hast sent wyddowes awaye emptie and oppressed the poore fatherlesse.
Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Thou hast sent widowes away emptie, and the armes of the fatherlesse haue bene broken.
Thou hast sent wydowes away emptie, and the armes of the fatherlesse were broken.
But thou hast sent widows away empty, and has afflicted orphans.
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Thou leftist widewis voide; and al to-brakist the schuldris of fadirles children.
You have sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
You have sent widows away empty, And the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
You must have sent widows away empty-handed and crushed the hopes of orphans.
You have sent women away with nothing, whose husbands have died. And you have crushed the strength of children who have no parents.
You have sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you have crushed.
Widows, thou hast sent away empty, and, the arms of the fatherless, thou dost crush.
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.
"You have sent widows away empty, And the strength of the orphans has been crushed.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
widows: Job 24:3, Job 24:21, Job 29:12, Job 29:13, Job 31:16-18, Job 31:21, Exodus 22:21-24, Deuteronomy 27:19, Psalms 94:6, Isaiah 1:17, Isaiah 1:23, Isaiah 10:2, Ezekiel 22:7, Malachi 3:5, Luke 18:3-5
arms: Psalms 10:15, Psalms 37:17, Ezekiel 30:22
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 24:17 - pervert 1 Samuel 2:31 - I will cut Job 6:27 - the fatherless Job 34:28 - they Proverbs 23:10 - fatherless Jeremiah 22:3 - do no violence Jeremiah 48:25 - and his Ezekiel 45:9 - exactions Matthew 23:14 - for ye
Cross-References
Noah built an altar to God . He selected clean animals and birds from every species and offered them as burnt offerings on the altar. God smelled the sweet fragrance and thought to himself, "I'll never again curse the ground because of people. I know they have this bent toward evil from an early age, but I'll never again kill off everything living as I've just done.
God appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your children." Abram built an altar at the place God had appeared to him.
After all this, God tested Abraham. God said, "Abraham!" "Yes?" answered Abraham. "I'm listening."
He said, "Take your dear son Isaac whom you love and go to the land of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I'll point out to you."
Isaac said to Abraham his father, "Father?" "Yes, my son." "We have flint and wood, but where's the sheep for the burnt offering?"
Abraham said, "Son, God will see to it that there's a sheep for the burnt offering." And they kept on walking together.
Then Abraham went back to his young servants. They got things together and returned to Beersheba. Abraham settled down in Beersheba.
At dawn's first light, the high priests, with the religious leaders and scholars, arranged a conference with the entire Jewish Council. After tying Jesus securely, they took him out and presented him to Pilate.
Christ redeemed us from that self-defeating, cursed life by absorbing it completely into himself. Do you remember the Scripture that says, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"? That is what happened when Jesus was nailed to the cross: He became a curse, and at the same time dissolved the curse. And now, because of that, the air is cleared and we can see that Abraham's blessing is present and available for non-Jews, too. We are all able to receive God's life, his Spirit, in and with us by believing—just the way Abraham received it.
Wasn't our ancestor Abraham "made right with God by works" when he placed his son Isaac on the sacrificial altar? Isn't it obvious that faith and works are yoked partners, that faith expresses itself in works? That the works are "works of faith"? The full meaning of "believe" in the Scripture sentence, "Abraham believed God and was set right with God," includes his action. It's that mesh of believing and acting that got Abraham named "God's friend." Is it not evident that a person is made right with God not by a barren faith but by faith fruitful in works?
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou hast sent widows away empty,.... Either out of their own houses, which he spoiled, and devoured, and stripped, and cleared of all that were in them, as did the Scribes and Pharisees in Christ's time, Matthew 23:14; or out of his own house, when they came to him, as a rich man, for charity; as they came to him wanting relief, they went away so; if without food and clothing, they were bid to depart without giving them anything to feed and clothe them with; or if they came to him as a civil magistrate to have justice done them, and to be delivered out of the hands of their oppressors, they could not obtain any, but were dismissed without it; how contrary is this to
Job 29:13;
and the arms of the fatherless have been broken; not in a literal sense, as if when refusing to go out, when their mothers, the widows, had their houses spoiled, and they sent empty out of them; these laid hold on something within them, and would not depart, and so, had their arms broken by the mighty man, the man of arms; but, in a metaphorical and figurative sense, their substance, and goods, and possessions, left them by their fathers for their support, these were taken away from them, and so they were as impotent and helpless as if their arms had been broken; or their friends on whom they relied for their sustenance, these were either ruined, and so could not help them; or else their affections were alienated from them, and would not. This indeed is not expressly charged upon Job, but it is intimated that it was done with his knowledge and consent, good will, and approbation; at least that he connived at it, and suffered it to be done when it was in his power to have prevented it, and therefore to be ascribed unto him; but how foreign is all this to Job's true character, Job 29:12?
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Thou hast sent widows away empty - That is, without regarding their needs, and without doing anything to mitigate their sorrows. The oppression of the widow and the fatherless is, in the Scriptures, every where regarded as a crime of special magnitude; see the notes at Isaiah 1:17.
The arms of the fatherless have been broken - Thou hast taken away all that they relied on. Thou hast oppressed them and taken advantage of their weak and defenseless condition to enrich yourself. This charge was evidently gratuitous and unjust. It was the result of an “inference” from the fact that he was thus afflicted, and about as just as inferences, in such cases, usually are. To all this, Job replies in beautiful language in Job 29:11-16, when describing his former condition, and in justice to him, we may allow him to speak “here,” and to show what was, in fact, the course of his life.
When the ear heard me, then it blessed me;
And when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
Because I delivered the poor that cried,
And the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me:
And I caused the widow’s heart to leap for joy.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me;
My judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
I was eyes to the blind,
And feet was I to the lame;
I was a father to the poor,
And the cause which I knew not, I searched out
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 22:9. The arms of the fatherless — Whatever strength or power or property they had, of that thou hast deprived them. Thou hast been hard-hearted and cruel, and hast enriched thyself with the spoils of the poor and the defenceless.
