21 For he [a]preys on the barren who do not bear,
And does no good for the widow.

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  1. Job 24:21 Lit. feeds on

21 They prey on the barren and childless woman,
    and to the widow they show no kindness.(A)

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13 The blessing of a perishing man came upon me,
And I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

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13 The one who was dying blessed me;(A)
    I made the widow’s(B) heart sing.

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And her rival also (A)provoked her severely, to make her miserable, because the Lord had closed her womb. So it was, year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, that she provoked her; therefore she wept and did not eat.

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Because the Lord had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her.(A) This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the Lord, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat.(B)

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16 “If I have kept the poor from their desire,
Or caused the eyes of the widow to (A)fail,
17 Or eaten my morsel by myself,
So that the fatherless could not eat of it
18 (But from my youth I reared him as a father,
And from my mother’s womb I guided [a]the widow);

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  1. Job 31:18 Lit. her

16 “If I have denied the desires of the poor(A)
    or let the eyes of the widow(B) grow weary,(C)
17 if I have kept my bread to myself,
    not sharing it with the fatherless(D)
18 but from my youth I reared them as a father would,
    and from my birth I guided the widow(E)

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They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;
They (A)take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

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They drive away the orphan’s donkey
    and take the widow’s ox in pledge.(A)

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You have sent widows away empty,
And the [a]strength of the fatherless was crushed.

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  1. Job 22:9 Lit. arms

And you sent widows(A) away empty-handed(B)
    and broke the strength of the fatherless.(C)

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