Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
So far was I from "breaking the arms of the fatherless," as Eliphaz asserts (Job 22:9), I was a "father" to such.
the cause which I knew not—rather, "of him whom I knew not," the stranger (Proverbs 29:7 [UMBREIT]; contrast Luke 18:1, etc.). Applicable to almsgiving (Psalms 41:1); but here primarily, judicial conscientiousness (Job 31:13).
The grounds on which Job was praised (Job 29:11), his helping the afflicted (Psalms 72:12) who cried to him for help, as a judge, or as one possessed of means of charity. Translate: "The fatherless who had none to help him."
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Job 29:16:
Job 22:9
Job 31:18
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