²¹ He devoureth the barren that beareth not, And doeth not good to the widow.

¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

⁶ And her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Jehovah had shut up her womb.

⁷ And `as' he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Jehovah, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

⁹ Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

³ They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the widow's ox for a pledge.

¹⁶ If I have withheld the poor from `their' desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

¹⁷ Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

¹⁸ (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother's womb);