Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
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Gill's Exposition
Therefore snares are round about thee,.... Not what occasion sin, draw into it, and issue in it, as inward corruptions, the temptations of Satan, and the things of this world, but punishments; because…
Barnes' Notes
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,…
Eliphaz and his companions had condemned Job, in general, as a wicked man and a hypocrite; but none of them had descended to particulars, nor drawn up any articles of impeachment against him, until…
Cambridge Bible
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.
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