job 29:16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. - Free Bible Online

job 29:16 "I was a father to the needy, And I investigated the case which I did not know.


      16. 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 (Pr 29:7 [UMBREIT]; contrast Lu 18:1, &c.). Applicable to almsgiving (Ps 41:1); but here primarily, judicial conscientiousness (Job 31:13).

JFB.


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