Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
Majority Standard Bible
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 served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.
17I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
Cross References
Exodus 18:26And they judged the people at all times; they would bring the difficult cases to Moses, but any minor issue they would judge themselves.
Deuteronomy 17:8If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose.
1 Kings 3:16At that time two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.
Job 24:4They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
Job 31:18though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—
Job 31:32but no stranger had to lodge on the street, for my door has been open 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 →