Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 29 connects to 10 cross-references. Job's final speech begins with a nostalgic monologue recalling his former prosperity: when God watched over him, his children surrounded him, and his counsel was sought at the city gate. He was like rain to the dry ground, a father …
תרגומים נוספים
I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
A father I <FI>am<Fi> to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.
I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
הפניות צולבות
And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they …
And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the Lord shall choose shall shew …
If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and …
Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, …
And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw …
Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the …
(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from …
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.