King James Version (KJV)
Job 36:15
“He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.”
Verse in context — Job 36
13
But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
14
They die in youth, and their life [is] among the unclean.
15
He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
16
Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait [into] a broad place, where [there is] no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table [should be] full of fatness.
17
But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].
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