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Job 29:16

American Standard Version

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

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Job 29:16 in other translations

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

Job 29:16 · World English Bible

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 was I to the lame.
  3. 16I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
  4. 17And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.
  5. 18Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand: