Job 29:16
I [am] a father to the needy, || And the cause I have not known I search out.
Literal Standard Version
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 have been eyes to the blind, || And I [am] feet to the lame.
17And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, || And from his teeth I cast away prey.
Cross References
Exodus 18:26and they have judged the people at all times; they bring the hard matter to Moses, and they judge every small matter themselves.
Deuteronomy 17:8When anything is too hard for you for judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke—matters of strife within your gates—then you have risen and gone up to the place on which your God YHWH fixes,
1 Kings 3:16Then two women, harlots, come to the king, and they stand before him,
Job 24:4They turn aside the needy from the way, || Together have hid the poor of the earth.
Job 31:18(But from my youth || He grew up with me as [with] a father, || And from the belly of my mother I am led),
Job 31:32A stranger does not lodge in the street, || I open my doors to the traveler.
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 →