🌪️WEB · Job 29:16
What does Job 29:16 mean?
"I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn’t know, I searched out."
— Job 29:16 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn’t know, I searched out.
I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
Then I said, ‘I shall die in my own house, I shall count my days as the sand.
My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.
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