Job 29:16 KJV — MannaFest

Job 29:16

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

KJV

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ASV

I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

WEB

I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.

YLT

A father I am to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.

DBT

I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;

About this book

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Job — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.

Author: Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
Date: Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.

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23 verses on the floor

Proverbs 29:7
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Psalms 82:4
Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
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;)

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The grounds on which Job was praised (Job 29:11), his helping the afflicted (Ps 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."

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

(4.) The widows that were sighing for grief, and trembling for fear, he made to sing for joy, so carefully did he protect them and provide for them, and so heartily did he espouse their interest. It is a pleasure to a good man, and should be so to a great man, to give those occasion to rejoice that are most acquainted with grief.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Darkness - I passed safely through many difficulties, and dangers, and common calamities. Seat - When I caused the seat of justice to be set for me. By this, and several other expressions, it appears that Job was a magistrate.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

): The cause which I knew not I searched out. He diligently enquired into the matters of fact, patiently and impartially heard both sides, set every thing in its true light, and cleared it from false colours; he laid all circumstances together, that he might find out the truth and the merits of every cause, and then, and not until then, gave judgment upon it.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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.).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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