Job Chapter 29 verse 16 Holy Bible
I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
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I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
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I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
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I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
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I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
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I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.
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A father I `am' to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - I was a father to the poor (comp. ver. 12, and see below, ch. 31:16-22): and the cause which I knew not I searched out; rather, the cause of him that I knew not I searched out (see the Revised Version). When men were quite unknown to him, Job still gave to their causes the utmost possible attention, "searching them out," or investigating them, as diligently as if they had been the causes of his own friends.