Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
Darby Translation
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 eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;
17And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
Cross References
Exodus 18:26And they judged the people at all times: the hard matters they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged.
Deuteronomy 17:8If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, matters of controversy within thy gates, then shalt thou arise, and go up to the place which Jehovah thy God will choose.
1 Kings 3:16Then came two women, harlots, to the king, and stood before him.
Job 24:4They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves.
Job 31:18(For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the [widow] from my mother's womb;)
Job 31:32The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway.
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 →