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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 29:16 - 29:16
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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 (Pro 29:7 [Umbreit]; contrast Luk 18:1, etc.). Applicable to almsgiving (Psa 41:1); but here primarily, judicial conscientiousness (Job 31:13).