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For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
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The Nature of Oppression
Commentators note that the oppression described here is not limited to outright robbery. It includes crushing the poor through exploitative economic practices. As Albert Barnes explains, it can be as subtle as a rich man using a mortgage to legally seize a poor person's home for far less than its value, a practice he calls 'the worst kind of robbery.'
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Because he hath oppressed - Margin, “crushed.” Such is the Hebrew.
And forsaken the poor - He has plundered them, and then for…
19th Century
Anglican
Because he hath oppressed and forsaken ... — For these insinuations there was no foundation, but Job formally rebuts them…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Because he has oppressed [and] has forsaken the poor. Having oppressed, crushed, and broken the poor to pieces, he leaves…
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The miserable condition of the wicked man in this world is fully set forth. The lusts of the flesh are here called the sins of his youth. His hidin…
13th Century
Catholic
Since the author had said (in verse 11) that the bones of the evil person must be filled with the sins of their youth, so that they are punished af…
