Job 29:13

Let the blessing of the perishing one come upon me; yes, the mouth of the widow has blessed me.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

In Context

12For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper.

14Also I put on righteousness, and clothed myself with judgment like a mantle.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 16:11And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son, and your daughter, your man-servant and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which dwells among you, in whatever place the Lord your God shall choose, that his name should be called there.

Deuteronomy 26:5and he shall answer and say before the Lord your God, My father abandoned Syria, and went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a small number, and became there a mighty nation and a great multitude.

Nehemiah 8:10And the governor said to them, Go, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to them that have nothing; for the day is holy to our Lord: and faint not, for the Lord is our strength.

Job 31:19And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him;

Psalms 67:4Sing to God, sing praises to his name: make a way for him that rides upon the west (the Lord is his name) and exult before him. They shall be troubled before the face of him, 1

Proverbs 31:6Give strong drink to those that are in sorrow, and the wine to drink to those in pain:

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 →

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