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Contemporary English Version

Job 22:9

You have turned away widows and have broken the arms of orphans.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Orphan;   Poor;   Widow;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Widows;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Eliphaz;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Widow;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Fatherless;   Job, the Book of;   Justice;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Job;   Widow;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Broken;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Arm;   Eliphaz (2);   Empty;   Fatherless;   Job, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You sent widows away empty-handed,and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
Hebrew Names Version
You have sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
King James Version
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
English Standard Version
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
New Century Version
But you sent widows away empty-handed, and you mistreated orphans.
New English Translation
you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.
Amplified Bible
"You have sent widows away empty-handed, And the arms (strength) of the fatherless have been broken.
New American Standard Bible
"You have sent widows away empty, And the strength of orphans has been crushed.
World English Bible
You have sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, & the armes of the fatherles were broken.
Legacy Standard Bible
You have sent widows away empty,And the might of the orphans has been crushed.
Berean Standard Bible
You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
Complete Jewish Bible
you sent widows away empty-handed and left the arms of orphans crushed.
Darby Translation
Widows hast thou sent empty away, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Easy-to-Read Version
But maybe you sent widows away without giving them anything. And maybe you took advantage of orphans.
George Lamsa Translation
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless you have broken.
Good News Translation
You not only refused to help widows, but you also robbed and mistreated orphans.
Lexham English Bible
You have sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of orphans were crushed.
Literal Translation
You have sent widows away empty, and have crushed the arms of orphans.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou hast sent wyddowes awaye emptie and oppressed the poore fatherlesse.
American Standard Version
Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Bible in Basic English
You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
King James Version (1611)
Thou hast sent widowes away emptie, and the armes of the fatherlesse haue bene broken.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou hast sent wydowes away emptie, and the armes of the fatherlesse were broken.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But thou hast sent widows away empty, and has afflicted orphans.
English Revised Version
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou leftist widewis voide; and al to-brakist the schuldris of fadirles children.
Update Bible Version
You have sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
New King James Version
You have sent widows away empty, And the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
New Living Translation
You must have sent widows away empty-handed and crushed the hopes of orphans.
New Life Bible
You have sent women away with nothing, whose husbands have died. And you have crushed the strength of children who have no parents.
New Revised Standard
You have sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you have crushed.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Widows, thou hast sent away empty, and, the arms of the fatherless, thou dost crush.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.
Revised Standard Version
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
Young's Literal Translation
Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You have sent widows away empty, And the strength of the orphans has been crushed.

Contextual Overview

5 No! It's because of your terrible sins. 6 To guarantee payment of a debt, you have taken clothes from the poor. 7 And you refused bread and water to the hungry and thirsty, 8 although you were rich, respected, and powerful. 9 You have turned away widows and have broken the arms of orphans. 10 That's why you were suddenly trapped by terror, 11 blinded by darkness, and drowned in a flood. 12 God lives in the heavens above the highest stars, where he sees everything. 13 Do you think the deep darkness hides you from God? 14 Do thick clouds cover his eyes, as he walks around heaven's dome high above the earth?

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

Genesis 8:20
Noah built an altar where he could offer sacrifices to the Lord . Then he offered on the altar one of each kind of animal and bird that could be used for a sacrifice.
Genesis 12:7
but the Lord appeared to Abram and promised, "I will give this land to your family forever." Abram then built an altar there for the Lord .
Genesis 22:1
Some years later God decided to test Abraham, so he spoke to him. Abraham answered, "Here I am, Lord ."
Genesis 22:2
The Lord said, "Go get Isaac, your only son, the one you dearly love! Take him to the land of Moriah, and I will show you a mountain where you must sacrifice him to me on the fires of an altar."
Genesis 22:4
Three days later Abraham looked off in the distance and saw the place.
Genesis 22:7
Isaac said, "Father, we have the coals and the wood, but where is the lamb for the sacrifice?" "My son," Abraham answered, "God will provide the lamb." The two of them walked on, and
Genesis 22:10
He then took the knife and got ready to kill his son.
Genesis 22:17
"I will bless you and give you such a large family, that someday your descendants will be more numerous than the stars in the sky or the grains of sand along the beach. They will defeat their enemies and take over the cities where their enemies live.
Genesis 22:18
You have obeyed me, and so you and your descendants will be a blessing to all nations on earth."
Genesis 22:19
Abraham and Isaac went back to the servants who had come with him, and they returned to Abraham's home in Beersheba.

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.


 
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