Job 29:16 · KJV
“I {was} a father to the poor: and the cause {which} I knew not I searched out.”
— Job 29:16
I was eyes to the blind, and feet {was} I to the lame.
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. {the jaws: Heb. the jawteeth, or, the grinders} {plucked: Heb. cast}
Job 29 — Context
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment {was} as a robe and a diadem.
15I was eyes to the blind, and feet {was} I to the lame.
16I {was} a father to the poor: and the cause {which} I knew not I searched out.
17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. {the jaws: Heb. the jawteeth, or, the grinders} {plucked: Heb. cast}
18Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply {my} days as the sand.
Cross References
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.
Proverbs 25:2
{It is} the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings {is} to search out a matter.
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;) {her: that is, the widow}
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. {brought...: Heb. nourished} {fair...: Heb. fair of form, and good of countenance}
Job 24:4
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Deuteronomy 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;
Ephesians 5:1
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;