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Job 22:9

His treatment of widows he ejected them empty; or when they came seeking redress, or pleading their rights, he let them go unheard. Comp. Job's own language as to himself, ch. Job 29:13; Job 31:16.

The "arms" of the fatherless are their helps or rights, on which they relied, and by which they were supported.

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See also Job 22:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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 wit...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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, e...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    THE THIRD SERIES OF CONTROVERSIES CHAPTER 22 The Third Address of Eliphaz _ 1. Is not thy wickedness great? (Job 22:1)_ 2. In what Job had sinned (Job 22:6) 3. The omniscience of God and the ways...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 22. THIRD SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ. The only new thing that Eliphaz has to say, is definitely to describe the sin of Job! Yet his mildness makes him end with bright promises. JOB 22:1. Is it not to Job'...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. Specific sins charged against Job, and their consequences (Job 22:6-11) TEXT 22:6-11 6 FOR THOU HAST TAKEN PLEDGES OF THY BROTHER FOR NOUGHT, And stripped the naked of their clothing. 7 Thou ha...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THOU HAST SENT WIDOWS AWAY EMPTY, AND THE ARMS OF THE FATHERLESS HAVE BEEN BROKEN._ Empty - without their wants being relieved (Genesis 31:42). The Mosaic law especially protected the widow and fath...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE LAST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ 1-11. Eliphaz ignoring Job's last speech, perhaps because he could not answer it, argues that God's treatment of man must be impartial, since He has nothing to gain or lose...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 22 ELIPHAZ’S LAST SPEECH G...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Eliphaz began his list of Job’s evil deeds. Job did not really do any such things. Eliphaz had no evidence, so he was guessing. Many people today would say that such deeds are not evil. These people...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אַ֭לְמָנֹות שִׁלַּ֣חְתָּ רֵיקָ֑ם וּ זְרֹעֹ֖ות יְתֹמִ֣ים...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XIX. DOGMATIC AND MORAL ERROR Job 22:1 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE second colloquy has practically exhausted the subject of debate between Job and his friends. The three have really nothing more to say in t...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “ACQUAINT THYSELF WITH GOD” Job 22:1 Eliphaz opens the third cycle of the discussion with a speech altogether too hard and cruel. He begins with an _enumeration of Job's fancied misdeeds,_ Job 22:1....

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here begins the third cycle in the controversy, and again EIiphaz is the first speaker. His address consisted of two movements. First, he made a definite charge against Job (1-20); and, second, he mad...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the (e) fatherless have been broken. (e) You have not only not shown pity, but oppressed them....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Arms; possessions, condemning orphans unjustly._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (5) В¶ Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? (6) For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. (7) Thou hast not given water...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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 t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. Ver. 9. _Thou hast sent widows away empty_] A widow is a calamitous name: 2 Samuel 14:5, "I am indeed a widow woman,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Thou hast sent widows_ Whose helpless state called for thy pity; _away empty_ Either by denying them that relief that their poverty required, or that right which their cause deserved; or, by spoiling...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ELIPHAZ CHARGES JOB WITH WICKEDNESS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thou hast sent widows away empty, when they appealed to him for help, AND THE ARMS OF THE FATHERLESS HAVE BEEN BROKEN, they were treated with the most inhuman cruelty, deprived of all their rights and...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S SIN EXPOSED BEFORE GOD (vv.1-8) Eliphaz considered that he was representing God in speaking, and exposing what he imagined were the sins of Job. He first asks a question that it is well worth...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Here is the claim that Job rejected the widows and crushed the orphans. This sin is condemned throughout the Old Testament (Exodus 22:22; Deut. Job 27:19; Jeremiah 7:9; Job 22

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-14 Eliphaz brought heavy charges against Job, without reason for his accusations, except that Job was visited as he supposed God always visited every wicked man. He charges him with oppression, and...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WIDOWS, whose helpless estate called for thy pity, EXODUS 22:22 DEUTERONOMY 24:17,19. AWAY EMPTY; either by denying them that relief which their poverty required, or that right which their cause deser...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 22:9 sent H7971 (H8765) widows H490 empty H7387 strength H2220 fatherless H3490 crushed H1792 (H8792) wid

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Eliphaz's third discourse, accusing Job again of hypocrisy. CHARACTERS: God, Eliphaz, Job. CONCLUSION: It is the duty of those especially who are in affliction to keep up a perfect acquain...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 22:5. _Is not thy wickedness great?_ This speech of Eliphaz is cruel, and very much embittered; for it was mere suspicion that Job had robbed the widow, and stripped the naked. Job replies to it m...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Is not thy wickedness great?_ THE CHARGE AGAINST JOB I. Wrong in relation to man. In regard to the charge which he here brings against Job, it is worthy of note that whilst most expositors regard E...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 22:5 Eliphaz assumes that Job’s circumstances reveal significant EVIL in his life. He describes the likely ways that Job has sinned. ⇐

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 22:9 Eliphaz assumes that Job has mistreated WIDOWS and THE FATHERLESS. He speaks in terms similar to the warnings in the law (see Exod

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _THIRD SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE_ Remonstrates with Job on his self-righteousness, and plainly charges him with grievous transgressions as the cause of his present sufferings; concludes with pro...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 22:1 Eliphaz returns to the attack, but with observations that are at first strangely pointless and irrelevant, _e.g._ on the unprofitableness of man to God (verses l, 2), and on the s...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So Eliphaz takes up the argument now. And the same old story: he accuses Job of being wicked and he actually makes many bad accusations. He said, Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise m...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 27:19; Exodus 22:21; Ezekiel 22:7; Ezekiel 30:22;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Arms — Their supports, and rights....

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