Proverbs 23:11

For their Redeemer is mighty,.... As he must needs be, since the Lord of hosts is his name; who sympathizes with them, has mercy on them, is their father, and their friend; see Jer 50:34;

he shall…

The reason is given for the precept Pro 23:10. Their redeemer - See Job 19:25 note. It was the duty of the גאל gā'al, the next of kin, to take on himself, in case of murder, the office of avenger of…

Note, 1. The fatherless are taken under God's special protection; with him they not only find mercy shown to them (Hos 14:3) but justice done for them. He is their Redeemer, their Goel, their near…

their Redeemer viz. God, who is "a Father of the fatherless," Psa 68:5. The Heb. word is Goel, and there is probably an allusion to the Goelamong men, the nearest blood relation, whose duty it was not…