I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
What Does Job 29:16 Mean?
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"The familial metaphor transforms Job's civic role into a domestic one: "I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did no..."
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I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
A father I am to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.
I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I did not know, I searched out.
I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I did not know, I searched out.
I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I did not know, I searched out.
I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out.
I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.
I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.
A father, was, I, to the needy, and, as for the cause which I knew not, I used to search it out;
I was father to the poor, and the cause which I did not know, I searched out.
I was a father to the poor; and the cause which I did not know, I searched out.
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
I was a father to the poor, and I investigated ⌞the stranger’s⌟ legal dispute.
I was a father to the needy; and the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
I was the father of the poor; and if I lacked knowledge about any case, I investigated very diligently.
I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Y was a fadir of pore men; and Y enqueride most diligentli the cause, which Y knew not.
I was a father to the poor, And the cause of him I knew not I searched out;





