Job 29:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

Job 29:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 29:7
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
Psalms 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Job 31:18
(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
Job 24:4
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Esther 2:7
And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Alms Beggars Beneficence Charity Church Collection Free-Will Offerings

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. 16)

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.”