Job 29:16New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “I was a father to the needy, And I investigated the case which I did not know.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— I was a father to the needy: and the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— A father, was, I, to the needy, and, as for the cause which I knew not, I used to search it out;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— A father I [am] to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— I [was] a father to the poore: and the cause which I knewe not, I searched out.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— I was a father to the poor; and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— I was the father of the helpless; and I searched out the cause which I knew not.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out. |
I
x595 (0595) Complementאָנֹכִי'anokiy{aw-no-kee'}
A primitive pronoun; I.
[ was] a father
1 {0001} Primeאָב'ab{awb}
A primitive word; father in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application.
to the poor:
34 {0034} Primeאֶבְיוֹן'ebyown{eb-yone'}
From H0014, in the sense of want (especially in feeling); destitute.
and the cause
7379 {7379} Primeרִיבriyb{reeb}
From H7378; a contest (personal or legal).
[ which] I knew
3045 {3045} Primeידעyada`{yaw-dah'}
A primitive root; to know (properly to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively instruction, designation, punishment, etc.).
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
not
x3808 (3808) Complementלֹאlo'{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
I searched out.
2713 {2713} Primeחָקַרchaqar{khaw-kar'}
A primitive root; properly to penetrate; hence to examine intimately.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885 |
Job 29:16
_ _ So far was I from “breaking the arms of the fatherless,” as Eliphaz asserts (Job 22:9), I was a “father” to such.
_ _ the cause which I knew not — rather, “of him whom I knew not,” the stranger (Proverbs 29:7 [Umbreit]; contrast Luke 18:1, etc.). Applicable to almsgiving (Psalms 41:1); but here primarily, judicial conscientiousness (Job 31:13). |
- a father:
Job 31:18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as [with] a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
Esther 2:7 And he brought up Hadassah, that [is], Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid [was] fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Psalms 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is] God in his holy habitation.
Ephesians 5:1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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- the cause:
Exodus 18:26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Deuteronomy 13:14 Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, [if it be] truth, [and] the thing certain, [that] such abomination is wrought among you;
Deuteronomy 17:8-10 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, [being] matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose; ... And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:
1 Kings 3:16-28 Then came there two women, [that were] harlots, unto the king, and stood before him. ... And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God [was] in him, to do judgment.
Proverbs 25:2 [It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] to search out a matter.
Proverbs 29:7 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: [but] the wicked regardeth not to know [it].
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