Job 29:16
I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 eyes to the blinde, and I was the feete to the lame.
17I brake also the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the praye out of his teeth.
Cross References
Exodus 18:26And they iudged the people at all seasons, but they brought the hard causes vnto Moses: for they iudged all small matters themselues.
Deuteronomy 17:8If there rise a matter too harde for thee in iudgement betweene blood and blood, betweene plea and plea, betweene plague and plague, in the matters of controuersie within thy gates, then shalt thou arise, and goe vp vnto the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse,
1 Kings 3:16Then came two harlots vnto the King, and stoode before him.
Job 24:4They make the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hide themselues together.
Job 31:18(For from my youth hee hath growen vp with me as with a father, and from my mothers wombe I haue bene a guide vnto her)
Job 31:32The stranger did not lodge in the streete, but I opened my doores vnto him, that went by the way.
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 →