be waxen poor See on Leviticus 25:25.

his hand fail with thee i.e. if he lose his power of self-support by personal effort, and thou art able as a neighbour to help him.

uphold The text gives the literal sense of the Heb. verb, and the mg., relieve, its application in this context.

as a stranger and a sojourner shall he live with thee The Heb. rather connects the first words of the clause with that which precedes, and so Dillm. and Driver (with the LXX.) suppose that the two substantives are a later insertion here under the influence of Leviticus 25:23; Leviticus 25:47.

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