Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy; and the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 prey out of his teeth.
Cross References
Exodus 18:26And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Deuteronomy 17:8If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, even matters of controversy within thy gates; then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose.
1 Kings 3:16Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
Job 24:4They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Job 31:18Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have been her guide from my mother's womb.
Job 31:32The stranger did not lodge in the street; my doors I opened to the roadside.
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 →