Job 29:16
I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 to the blind, and a foot to the lame.
17I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.
Cross References
Exodus 18:26And they judged the people at all times: and whatsoever was of greater difficulty they referred to him, and they judged the easier cases only.
Deuteronomy 17:8If thou perceive that there be among you a hard and doubtful matter in judgment between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy and leprosy: and thou see that the words of the judges within thy gates do vary: arise, and go up to the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose.
1 Kings 3:16Then there came two women that were harlots, to the king, and stood before him:
Job 24:4They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth.
Job 31:18(For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb :)
Job 31:32The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.
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 →