²¹ He devours the barren who don't bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

¹³ The blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

⁶ Her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

⁷ [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Yahweh, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

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

³ They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, And 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 has not eaten of it

¹⁸ (No, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, Her have I guided from my mother's womb);