Job 31:21 - Exposition

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless ; i.e. if I have in any way oppressed him. When I saw my help in the gate ; i.e. . when I had the power to do so—when I saw my friends and hangers-on mustered in force at the gate where causes were being tried. The wrong and robbery which the poor suffer in the East have always been camel, to a large extent, by failure of justice in the courts, where might, and not right, carries the day.