Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor, And the cause of him I knew not I searched out;
Noyes 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 was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame;
17And I broke the teeth of the wicked, And plucked the spoil from his jaws.
Cross References
Job 24:4They push the needy from the way; All the poor of the land are forced to hide themselves.
Job 31:18(Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And I have helped the widow from my mother's womb;)
Job 31:32The stranger did not lodge in the street; I opened my doors to the traveller.
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 →