🌪️WEB · Job 22:9

What does Job 22:9 mean?

"You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken."

— Job 22:9 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

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You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

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But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

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You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

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Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

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or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

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“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

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