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Job 29:17
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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. 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Job 29:17

Image from combating with wild beasts (Job 4:11; Psalms 3:7). So compassionate was Job to the oppressed, so terrible to the oppressor!

jaws—Job broke his power, so that he could do no more hurt, and tore from him the spoil, which he had torn from others.



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."


 
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