Job 29:16
I was the father of the poor; and if I lacked knowledge about any case, I investigated very diligently.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
In Context
15I was an eye for the blind and a foot for the lame.
17I crushed the jaws of the impious, and I took away prey from his teeth.
Cross References
Exodus 18:26And they judged the people at all times. But whatever was more serious, they referred to him, and they judged easier matters only.
Deuteronomy 17:8If you have perceived that there is among you a difficult and doubtful matter of judgment, between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy and leprosy, and if you will have seen that the words of the judges within your gates vary: rise up and ascend to the place which the Lord your God will choose.
1 Kings 3:16Then two women harlots went to the king, and they stood before him.
Job 24:4They have undermined the way of the poor, and have pressed together the meek of the earth.
Job 31:18(for from my infancy mercy grew with me, and it came out with me from my mother’s womb;)
Job 31:32for the foreigner did not remain at the door, my door was open to the traveler;
Matthew Henry on Job 29:8-18
7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! 8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. 9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. 10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 13 The… Read the whole commentary →