²¹ He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.

¹³ The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.

⁶ And the other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy, because the Lord had not let her have children;

⁷ And year by year, whenever she went up to the house of the Lord, she kept on attacking her, so that Hannah gave herself up to weeping and would take no food.

⁹ You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

³ They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.

¹⁶ If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

¹⁷ If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;

¹⁸ (For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)