Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 29:16

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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 ( Proverbs 29:7 [UMBREIT]; contrast Luke 18:1 , c.). Applicable to almsgiving ( Psalms 41:1 ) but here primarily, judicial conscientiousness ( Psalms 41:1- : ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-17" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-job-29-001

절 (explains)

bible-text/job-29-16

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
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