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Job 22:9

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22:9you sent widows away empty-handed,

and the arms14 of the orphans you crushed.15

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Footnotes

  1. 14 The “arms of the orphans” are their helps or rights on which they depended for support.
  2. 15 The verb in the text is Pual: יְדֻכָּא (yédukka’, “was [were] crushed”). §121.b would explain “arms” as the complement of a passive imperfect. But if that is too difficult, then a change to Piel imperfect, second person, will solve the difficulty. In its favor is the parallelism, the use of the second person all throughout the section, and the reading in all the versions. The versions may have simply assumed the easier reading, however.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

You have sent widows away empty,

and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

And you sent widows away empty-handed

and broke the strength of the fatherless.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

You sent widows away empty-handed,

and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

NLTNew Living Translation

You must have sent widows away empty-handed

and crushed the hopes of orphans.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

You have sent widows away empty-handed,

and the arms of orphans were crushed.

KJV 1900King James Version

Thou hast sent widows away empty,

And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.