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Selected Verse: Job 24:21 - King James

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Job 24:21 King James He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
The reason given by the friends why the sinner deserves such a fate.

barren--without sons, who might have protected her.

widow--without a husband to support her.
 
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3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.