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Job 5:16
So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The speaker addresses Job within a discourse on divine justice, positioned between a promise of deliverance from the powerful and a declaration regarding God's corrective discipline.
The words — תִּקְוָה (tikvah) translates to hope, and קָפְצָה (qafzah) means it shuts or closes, describing how injustice is silenced.
The thread — The motif of iniquity shutting its mouth appears in Psalms 107:42 and Psalms 63:11, while the elevation of the poor parallels 1 Samuel 2:8.
Why it lands — The text asserts that the poor receive hope and injustice is silenced, requiring the reader to acknowledge divine intervention as the cause and to accept correction without contempt.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
Cross-references
- Psalms 107:42 The upright see and rejoice, and all iniquity shuts its mouth.
- 1 Samuel 2:8 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
- Psalms 63:11 But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by Him will exult, for the mouths of liars will be shut.
- Exodus 11:7 But among all the Israelites, not even a dog will snarl at man or beast.’ Then you will know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.
- Psalms 9:18 For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.
- Isaiah 14:32 What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”
- Zechariah 9:12 Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double.
- Romans 3:19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.