Overview - Job 6 1?Job shews that his complaints are not causeless. 8?He wishes for death, wherein he is assured of comfort. 14?He reproves his frien...
Isaiah 10:2 To turn aside the needy from judgment Such laws being made as discouraged them from any application for justice; and, when they did, were ...
Exodus 23:6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.] As the poor man was not to be favoured when his cause was bad through an affe...
Deuteronomy 24:18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, &c.] The remembrance of which may cause sympathy with persons in distress...
Psalms 82:3 Defend the poor and fatherless Or, judge F4 them; such as have no money to enter and carry on a suit, and have no friends to assist and ad...
Isaiah 1:23 Thy princes [are] rebellious Stubborn and obstinate, refused to receive and acknowledge the Messiah; such were the Jewish rulers, civil an...
Jeremiah 5:28 They are waxen fat, they shine Becoming rich they grew fat, and their faces shone through fatness; so oil, delicious food, and good livi...
Overview - Jeremiah 5 1?The judgments of God upon the Jews, for their perverseness; 7?for their adultery; 10?for their impiety; 15?for their worship ...
Overview - Exodus 22 1?Of theft. 5?Of damage. 7?Of trespasses. 14?Of borrowing. 16?Of fornication. 18?Of witchcraft. 19?Of bestiality. 20?Of idolatr...
Job 6:27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless Meaning himself; who was like a fatherless child, stripped of all his mercies, of his children, his substanc...
Overview - Exodus 22 1?Of theft. 5?Of damage. 7?Of trespasses. 14?Of borrowing. 16?Of fornication. 18?Of witchcraft. 19?Of bestiality. 20?Of idolatr...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 5. A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. In the wilderness the people were like an or...
Psalms 10:18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed That is, God will cause his ear to hear the cries of his people, so as to avenge the wrongs don...
Isaiah 1:17 Learn to do well Which men are naturally ignorant of; to do good they have no knowledge; nor can they that are accustomed to do evil learn...
Overview - Zechariah 7 1?The captives enquire concerning the set fasts. 4?Zechariah reproves the hypocrisy of their fasting. 8?Sin the cause of thei...
Overview - Isaiah 1 1?Isaiah complains of Judah for her rebellion. 5?He laments her judgments. 10?He upbraids their whole service. 16?He exhorts to r...
Proverbs 31:8 Open thy mouth for the dumb Not who are naturally so, but who cannot speak in their own behalf, either through want of elocution, or kno...
Deuteronomy 24:17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, [nor] of the fatherless Who are unable to defend themselves, and have but few, ...
Psalms 103:6 The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.] Not only for the Israelites oppressed by the Egyptians, though...
Nehemiah 8:10 Then he said unto them Nehemiah the Tirshatha or governor: go your way; to their own houses, and refresh themselves; it being noon, and...