Job 24:21

They mistreat women who have been unable to give birth to children and women who no longer have children to take care of them, and they never do good things for widows.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

In Context

20Not even their mothers remember them now; wicked people are destroyed like trees that are cut down, and maggots eat their corpses.

22But God, by his power, gets rid of mighty/influential people. God acts and causes the wicked people to die.

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Cross References

Job 22:9When widows came to you for help, you must have sent them away without giving them anything, and you must have oppressed orphans.

Job 29:13Those who were suffering and about to die praised [PRS] me, and I caused widows [SYN] to sing joyfully, because of my helping them.

Proverbs 15:25Yahweh tears down the houses of proud people, but he protects the property of widows.

Matthew Henry on Job 24:19-25

Ultimate Ruin of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. 19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned. 20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. 21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. 22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he… Read the whole commentary →

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