“ I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. ”
I was a father to the poor - I took them under my protection, and treated them as if they were my own children. And the cause which I knew not I searched out - This is according to the interp...
Job 29. Job's Former Happy Days. Job 29:1-6 . Job longs that he might once again live as of old under God's favour. In Job 29:4 secret means intimacy ( cf. Psalms 25:14 ). Job 29:7-10 ....
poor . helpless. Hebrew. 'ebyon. See note on Proverbs 6:11 .
DISCOURSE: 479 JOB’S CHARACTER Job 29:11-16 . When the ear heard me, then it blessed me: and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherle...
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. The cause which I knew not I searched out - When any thing difficult occurred, I did not give it a slight consideration;...
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The grounds on which Job was praised ( Job 29:11 ) - his helping the afflicted ( Psalms 72:12 ),...
Job's Past Greatness and Happiness Job mournfully recalls the days of God's favour, and the prosperity and honour he once enjoyed. In this chapter we have the picture of a great and worthy chiefta...
XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1-25 ; Job 30:1-31 ; Job 31:1-40 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job...
the Bitter Memory of the Happy Past Job 29:1-25 How many thousands, looking back on the beautiful dawn of life which has become overcast, have uttered the thought of the opening words of this c...
Job now moved a step forward in his reply. He was still without a solution. That of his friends he utterly repudiated. In order to prepare the way for the utterance of a solemn oath of innocence, he...
(6) When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; (7) В¶ When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! (8) The young men saw me,...
I [was] a father to the poor ,.... Not in a literal sense; for his children were rich as well as himself, while he had them; but in a civil sense, he was the patron of the poor; he was an advocate f...
I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out. Ver. 16. I was a father to the poor ] Ab laebionim, an elegant alliteration, as Mercer here noteth. Job was not onl...
I was eyes to the blind That is, instead of eyes, to instruct, direct, and assist such, as through ignorance or weakness were apt to mistake, and to be seduced or cheated by the craft and artifices...
JOB'S PAST GREATNESS In this chapter Job dwells upon the honour and dignity that had been his in the past. While he was sincere in what he said, and no doubt spoke truthfully, yet there is far too...
7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! 8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. 9 The princes refr...
A father, i.e. had the care and bowels of a father to them. The cause which I knew not; either, 1. Those which were not brought to my knowledge or tribunal, either through neglect, or because t...
JOB’S RETROSPECT Takes a calm retrospective view of his past experience and life. Thus disproves the suspicions and accusations of his friends, and shows that his complaints were sufficiently we...
Job 29:3 . When his candle shined upon my head; that is, when the light of his countenance shone upon me, in every form of patriarchal prosperity. This figure seems to be borrowed from the lights...
I put on righteousness. Ad magistratum When others do us open wrong, it is not vanity, but charity, to do ourselves open right. And whatsoever appearance of folly or vain boasting there is in s...
EXPOSITION Job 29:1-18 From these deep musings upon the nature of true wisdom, and the contrast between the ingenuity and cleverness of man and the infinite knowledge of God, Job turns to a...
Job Speaks of his Benevolence and the Honor Accorded Him
1 Kings 3:16-28 ; Deuteronomy 13:14 ; Deuteronomy 17:8-10 ; Ephesians 5:1 ; Esther 2:7 ; Exodus 18:26 ; James 1:27 ; Job 31:18 ; Proverbs 25:2 ; Proverbs 29:7 ; Psalms 68:5