Job 5:15
But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
In Context
14They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
16So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.
Cross References
Psalms 10:14You have seen it; for you behold mischief and spite, to requite it with your hand: the poor commits himself unto you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
Psalms 35:10All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto you, which deliver the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoils him?
Psalms 72:12For he shall deliver the needy when he cries; the poor also, and him that has no helper.
Psalms 109:31For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
Matthew Henry on Job 5:7-17
6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; 7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. 8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: 9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: 10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: 11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. 12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their… Read the whole commentary →