Job 29:16
I was the father of the helpless; 1 And I searched out the cause which I knew not. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 the eye of the blind, 1 And the foot of the lame. 1
Cross References
Exodus 18:26And they judged the people at all times; and every too burdensome matter they brought to Moses, but every light matter they judged themselves.
Deuteronomy 17:8And if a matter shall be too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, and between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, and between contradiction and contradiction, matters of judgment in your cities;
1 Kings 3:16Then there appeared two harlots before the king, and they stood before him.
Job 24:4They have turned aside the weak from the right way: 1 And the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together. 1
Job 31:18(For I nourished them as a father from my youth, 1 And guided them from my mother’s womb). 1
Job 31:32For the stranger did not lodge without, 1 And my door was opened to everyone that came): 1
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 →