Job 29:16
14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
- KJV
- I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
- WEB
- I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.
- ASV
- I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
- DARBY
- I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
- BLB
- I [was] a father to the poor, and the case I did not know, I searched it out.
- ÅB
- En far var jeg for de fattige, og ukjente folks sak gransket jeg.
- OTB
- Jeg var en far for de trengende,
Og jeg undersøkte saken jeg ikke kjente. - B1930
- En far var jeg for de fattige, og ukjente folks sak gransket jeg.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 29:7
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
Read in contextPsalms 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Read in contextEsther 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.
Read in contextProverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Read in contextJob 24:4
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Read in contextJob 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;)
Read in contextExodus 18:26
And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 17:8–10
If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
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