Holy Scripture

Job 24:21

A church father on this verse
“"He has not treated the barren woman well," that is, the woman who is without help because of her lack of children. And notice again how ill treatment is considered an act of impiety. "Keep away from evil," the divine psalmist says, "and practice good." "And he had no pity on a feeble woman," that is, on a woman who n…”
Olympiodorus of Alexandria, 6th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 24:20-22

Source: Septuagint

Original

21For he has not treated the barren woman well, And has had no pity on a feeble woman.

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19Let them be withered upon the earth; For they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless.

20Then is his sin brought to remembrance, And he vanishes like a vapor of dew: But let what he has done be recompensed to him, And let every unrighteous one be crushed like rotten wood.

— Job 24:21 —

22And in wrath he has overthrown the helpless: Therefore when he has arisen, a man will not feel secure of his own life.

23When he has fallen sick, let him not hope to recover: but let him perish by disease.

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