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Job 29:16 KJV
Job · chapter 29 · verse 16
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.Job 29:16 · King James Version
Job 29:16 in context
14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
16I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
18Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- causerîyba contestH7379 →
- poorʼebyôwndestituteH34 →
- knewyâdaʻto knowH3045 →
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We have here Job in a post of honour and power. Though he had comfort enough in his own house, yet he did not confine himself to that. We are not born for ourselves, but for the public.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-17