욥기 29:16
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Context
This verse from 욥기 Chapter 29 connects to 10 cross-references. 욥이 그리운 과거를 회상하는 독백을 시작한다. 하나님이 자신을 지키시던 때, 자녀들이 주위에 있고 농사가 잘 될 때, 성문에서 어른들이 자신의 조언을 존중하던 때를 그리워한다. 그는 가난한 자의 아버지요 낯선 자의 후원자로 인정받았다.
다른 번역본
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.
상호 참조
And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they …
Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, …
If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and …
And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the Lord shall choose shall shew …
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 …
And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the …
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from …
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.