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Job 29:16

World English Bible

I was a father to the needy.
I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.

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Job 29:16 in other translations

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

Job 29:16 · American Standard Version

Job 29:16 in context

  1. 14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me.
    My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
  2. 15I was eyes to the blind,
    and feet to the lame.
  3. 16I was a father to the needy.
    I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.
  4. 17I broke the jaws of the unrighteous
    and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
  5. 18Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house,
    I will count my days as the sand.