Job 29:16

poor. helpless. Hebrew. 'ebyon. See note on Proverbs 6:11.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 in...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 o...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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:...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The cause which I knew not] RV 'the cause of him that I knew not.'
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 in...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 fo...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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 prepare...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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, h...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 al...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 t...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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, a...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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 th...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOB’S RETROSPECT Takes a calm retrospective view of his past experience and life. Thus disproves the suspicions and accusations of his friends,...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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....
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

I was a father to the poor. A father to the poor The text is part of Job’s noble vindication of himself from a charge of hypocrisy and impiety....
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Speaks of his Benevolence and the Honor Accorded Him
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

I was a father to the poor, attending to the wants of the needy like a natural father; and the cause which I knew not I searched out, he made it hi...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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...

¹⁶ I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

Related Commentaries of Job 29:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 29:16