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Job 29:16

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

KJV

Pater eram pauperum, et causam quam nesciebam diligentissime investigabam.

Vulgate

ἐγὼ ἤμην πατὴρ ἀδυνάτων, δίκην δὲ ἣν οὐκ ᾔδειν ἐξιχνίασα·

LXX

I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

ASV

אָ֣ב אָ֭נֹכִֽי לָֽ/אֶבְיוֹנִ֑ים וְ/רִ֖ב לֹא יָדַ֣עְתִּי אֶחְקְרֵֽ/הוּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶבְי֑וֹן
'byvn
adjective · 59×
אָנֹכִ֖י
'nky
pronoun · 356×
ו
v
noun · 1201×
יָדְע֖וּ
yd'v
verb · 944×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
נֶחְקַ֖ר
nchqr
verb · 27×
רִ֥יב
ryb
noun · 61×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Esth 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
  • Exod 18:21 — Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of
  • Gen 45:8 — So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
  • Job 24:4 — They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
  • 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;)
  • Prov 18:13 — He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
  • Prov 25:2 — It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
  • Prov 25:2 — It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
  • Prov 29:7 — The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
  • Prov 29:7 — The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
  • Ps 68:5 — A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
  • Ps 82:4 — Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.