Job 29:16 | JFB | STEP | 16. So far was I from "breaking the arms of the fatherless, " as Eliphaz asserts ( ), I was a "father" to such. the cause which I knew not —rather, "of him whom I knew not," the stranger ( [UMBREIT ]; contrast , &c.). Applicable to almsgiving ( ); but here primarily, judicial conscientiousness ( ).

Job 29:16

16. So far was I from "breaking the arms of the fatherless," as Eliphaz asserts (Job 22:9), I was a "father" to such.

the cause which I knew not—rather, "of him whom I knew not," the stranger (Pr 29:7 [UMBREIT]; contrast Lu 18:1, &c.). Applicable to almsgiving (Ps 41:1); but here primarily, judicial conscientiousness (Job 31:13).

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