Job 22:9 - Exposition

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 fatherless has been (by thy fault) taken flora them. Job has allowed them to be oppressed and ruined. The reply of Job is, "When the ear heard, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw, it gave witness to me: because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless , and him that had none to help him" ( Job 29:11 , Job 29:12 ; see also Job 31:21 , Job 31:22 ).