Job 29:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

Job 29:12 —

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Cross-References

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Psalms 72:12
For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
Proverbs 21:13
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Psalms 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Proverbs 24:11-12
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; …

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-17)

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. When any business was to be done in the gate, the place of judgment, Job went out to it through the city (Job 29:7), not in an affectation of pomp, but in an affection to justice. Observe, Judgment was administered…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12-17. The grounds on which Job was praised (Job 29:11), his helping the afflicted (Psa 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.”