Job 29:16

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Job 29:16

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Berean Standard Bible

I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.

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KJV

King James Version

I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out.

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WEB

World English Bible

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

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ASV

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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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Job 29

¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.

¹⁵ I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.

¹⁶ I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.

¹⁷ I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.

¹⁸ So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.

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