Job 29:13
The blessing of the perishing comes on me, || And I cause the heart of the widow to sing.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
12For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, || And the fatherless who has no helper.
14I have put on righteousness, and it clothes me, || My justice as a robe and a crown.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 16:11And you have rejoiced before your God YHWH, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your handmaid, and the Levite who [is] within your gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who [are] in your midst, in the place which your God YHWH chooses to cause His Name to dwell there,
Deuteronomy 26:5And you have answered and said before your God YHWH, My father [is] a perishing Aramean! And he goes down to Egypt, and sojourns there with few men, and becomes a great, mighty, and populous nation there;
Nehemiah 8:10And he says to them, “Go, eat fat things, and drink sweet things, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today [is] holy to our Lord, and do not be grieved, for the joy of YHWH is your strength.”
Job 31:19If I see [any] perishing without clothing, || And there is no covering for the needy,
Psalms 67:4Nations rejoice and sing, || For You judge peoples uprightly, || And comfort peoples on earth. Selah.
Proverbs 31:6Give strong drink to the perishing, || And wine to the bitter in soul,
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 →