“I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.”
Job 29:16 (KJV) |
Job 29:16
From Job 29, in the Book of Job (Old Testament).
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I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
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I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
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I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
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And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
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Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.