Job 29:16

Job 29:16

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14 ^aI put on righteousness, and it clothed me;
My justice was like a robe and a turban.

15 I was ^aeyes to the blind,
And I was feet to the lame.

16 I was a father to the poor,
And ^aI searched out the case that I did not know.

17 I broke ^athe fangs of the wicked,
And plucked the victim from his teeth.

18 “Then I said, ^a‘I shall die in my nest,
And multiply my days as the sand.

19 ^aMy root is spread out ^bto the waters,
And the dew lies all night on my branch.

20 My glory is fresh within me,
And my ^abow is renewed in my hand.’

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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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).

Job 29:12-17

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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