Job 22:9 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 22:5-14

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 Eliphaz did so here, where he positively and expressly charges him with many high crimes and misdemeanours, which, if he had really been guilty of them, might well have justified them in their harsh censures of him. ?Come,? says Eliphaz, ?we have been too long beating about the bush, too tender of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 22:9

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... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 22:1-30

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 slight importance of Job's case (verse 3). After this weak prelude, however, there is more vigour in his assault. In verses 4-9 he directly charges Job with a number of specified sins, and in verses 10, 11 declares his sufferings to be the consequence of them. He then proceeds to accuse him of denying God's... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 22:1-30

Censorious and uncharitable reasoning. Eliphaz again takes up the word. He does not contest Job's position, that life presents many examples of the prosperity of the godless, and of the calamities of the godly, but he still maintains that only grievous sins, such as he proceeds to specify — oppression, hard-heartedness, injustice to his neighbours—could be the cause of his misfortunes and miseries (verses 2-10). He then proceeds to give an earnest warning against further indulgence in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 22:2-11

The impartiality of the Divine judgment. Eliphaz knows of no tense for suffering but sin. Doubtless sin—transgression of Divine laws—does lie deeply buried in the causes of human suffering. This is the fruitful seed from which widespread harvests of suffering grow. But it is not within the power of man to fix on the actual offender. Suffering occurs in a thousand instances where not the sufferer but another is the offender. To charge home, therefore, upon every sufferer the cause of his... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 22:5-20

Eliphaz to Job: 2. A false accusation. I. A CHARGE OF FLAGRANT IMMORALITY . 1 . Generally preferred. (Verse 5.) All sin may be justly characterized as great, being committed against a great God, a great Law, great light, great love, great obligations, and great penalties; and every man's iniquities may be styled "without an end," i.e. numberless, since David says of his, "They are more than the hairs of mine head" ( Psalms 40:12 ); but Eliphaz designs to represent Job's... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 22:9

Thou hast sent widows away empty . Job, on the contrary, declares that he "caused the widow s heart to sing for joy" ( Job 29:13 ). The sin of oppressing widows was one of which Job deeply felt the heinousness. He is certainly a priori not likely to have committed it ( Job 1:1 ; Job 4:3 , Job 4:4 ), and the prejudiced testimony of Eliphaz will scarcely convince any dispassionate person to the contrary. And the arms of the fatherless have been broken ; i.e. the strength of the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 22:9

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... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 22:9

Job 22:9. 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 them of their goods, because thou knewest them to be unable to oppose thee, or to defend themselves. And the arms of the fatherless have been broken That is, all their supports and rights, a heinous sin, but falsely charged upon Job. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 22:5-14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 22:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 22:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 22:1-30

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 22:1-30

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 22:2-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 22:5-20

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 22:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 22:9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 22:9

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