Job 29:16
A father was I to the needy; and the cause of him I knew not I used to investigate.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
In Context
15Eyes was I to the blind; and feet to the lame was I.
17And I broke the cutting-teeth of the wrong-doer, and out of his teeth I cast down his prey.
Cross References
Exodus 18:26And they judged the people at all times; any difficult cause they brought unto Moses, but every small cause they judged themselves.
Deuteronomy 17:8If a matter be unknown to thee for decision, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between bodily injury and injury, [or] matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which the Lord thy God will choose;
1 Kings 3:16Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and placed themselves before him.
Job 24:4They chase the needy out of the highway: altogether hide themselves the poor of the earth.
Job 31:18(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as though we were of one father, and I have guided her [as though she was sprung] from my mother's womb;)
Job 31:32In the street a stranger had not to lodge; my doors I held open 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 →