George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 29:16
Diligently, not passing sentence at random. I also endeavoured to do justice to those who durst not make any complaint. The prince ought to have an eye to all things. (Calmet)
Diligently, not passing sentence at random. I also endeavoured to do justice to those who durst not make any complaint. The prince ought to have an eye to all things. (Calmet)
Verse Job 29:16. _THE CAUSE_ WHICH _I KNEW NOT I SEARCHED OUT._] When any thing difficult occurred, I did not give it a _slight_ consideration; I examined it to the bottom, whatever pain, time, and tr...
I WAS A FATHER TO THE POOR - I took them under my protection, and treated them as if they were my own children. AND THE CAUSE WHICH I KNEW NOT I SEARCHED OUT - This is according to the interpretation...
CHAPTER 29 _ 1. His past prosperity and honors (Job 29:1)_ 2. The good works he did (Job 29:11) Job 29:1. The words spoken by Job were wholesome words, showing that his mind was moving in another ch...
JOB 29. JOB'S FORMER HAPPY DAYS. Job 29:1. Job longs that he might once again live as of old under God's favour. In Job 29:4 secret means intimacy (_cf._ Psalms 25:14)....
POOR. helpless. Hebrew. _'ebyon._ See note on Proverbs 6:11....
The ground of this universal reverence Job's benevolent care of the poor and his strict justice to their cause....
_the cause which I knew not_ Rather, THE CAUSE OF HIM WHOM I KNEW NOT. Not merely the poor about him, to whom he might feel that he owed help, but even strangers who had a cause that needed unravellin...
DISCOURSE: 479 JOB’S CHARACTER Job 29:11. When the ear heard me, then it blessed me: and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and hi...
b. The cause of his honored position was benevolence and righteousness (Job 29:11-17) TEXT 29:11-17 11 FOR WHEN THE EAR HEARD _ME,_ THEN IT BLESSED ME; And when the eye saw _me,_ it gave witness un...
_BECAUSE I DELIVERED THE POOR THAT CRIED, AND THE FATHERLESS, AND HIM THAT HAD NONE TO HELP HIM._ The grounds on which Job was praised (Job 29:11) - his helping the afflicted (Psalms 72:12), who cried...
THE CAUSE _which_ I knew not] RV 'the cause of him that I knew not.'...
JOB'S PAST GREATNESS AND HAPPINESS Job mournfully recalls the days of God's favour, and the prosperity and honour he once enjoyed. In this chapter we have the picture of a great and worthy chieftain...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 29 JOB DESCRIBES HIS LIFE B...
Job did many good things. He even helped people whom nobody else would help. And Job wanted to do good deeds every day (verse 14). Job did these things because he was a servant of God (Job 1:8). So Jo...
אָ֣ב אָ֭נֹכִֽי לָֽ † אֶבְיֹונִ֑ים וְ רִ֖ב...
XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1; Job 30:1; Job 31:1 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job looks back to the y...
THE BITTER MEMORY OF THE HAPPY PAST Job 29:1 How many thousands, looking back on the beautiful dawn of life which has become overcast, have uttered the thought of the opening words of this chapter! T...
Job now moved a step forward in his reply. He was still without a solution. That of his friends he utterly repudiated. In order to prepare the way for the utterance of a solemn oath of innocence, he f...
(6) When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; (7) В¶ When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! (8) The young men saw me,...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
I [WAS] A FATHER TO THE POOR,.... Not in a literal sense; for his children were rich as well as himself, while he had them; but in a civil sense, he was the patron of the poor; he was an advocate for...
I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out. Ver. 16. _I was a father to the poor_] _Ab laebionim,_ an elegant alliteration, as Mercer here noteth. Job was not only...
_I was eyes to the blind_ That is, instead of eyes, to instruct, direct, and assist such, as through ignorance or weakness were apt to mistake, and to be seduced or cheated by the craft and artifices...
I was a father to the poor, attending to the wants of the needy like a natural father; AND THE CAUSE WHICH I KNEW NOT I SEARCHED OUT, he made it his business to find out about the friendless in the co...
JOB SPEAKS OF HIS BENEVOLENCE AND THE HONOR ACCORDED HIM...
JOB'S PAST GREATNESS In this chapter Job dwells upon the honour and dignity that had been his in the past. While he was sincere in what he said, and no doubt spoke truthfully, yet there is far too muc...
7-17 All sorts of people paid respect to Job, not only for the dignity of his rank, but for his personal merit, his prudence, integrity, and good management. Happy the men who are blessed with such g...
A FATHER, i.e. had the care and bowels of a father to them. THE CAUSE WHICH I KNEW NOT; either, 1. Those which were not brought to my knowledge or tribunal, either through neglect, or because the inj...
Job 29:16 father H1 poor H34 out H2713 (H8799) case H7379 know H3045 (H8804) a father -...
CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He rehearses the story of his life. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: A gracious soul delights in God's smiles, not the smiles of the world, although virtu...
Job 29:3. When _his candle shined upon my head;_ that is, when the light of his countenance shone upon me, in every form of patriarchal prosperity. This figure seems to be borrowed from the lights in...
_I was a father to the poor._ A FATHER TO THE POOR The text is part of Job’s noble vindication of himself from a charge of hypocrisy and impiety. So far was Job from considering the poor as made for...
_I put on righteousness._ AD MAGISTRATUM When others do us open wrong, it is not vanity, but charity, to do ourselves open right. And whatsoever appearance of folly or vain boasting there is in so do...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 29:1 Chapters Job 29:1 conclude the dialogues with Job’s reflections on his current and future state....
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 29:7 Job looks back on what he had thought the course of his life would be. He had seen it as a well-rooted tree that would continue to bear fruit, benefiting himself and others (vv. J...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 29:14 Job used his possessions and influence to provide what others could not provide for themselves. ⇐...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 29:16 SEARCHED OUT THE CAUSE. Job took up legal cases even when there could be no possible benefit for him in doing so. ⇐...
_JOB’S RETROSPECT_ Takes a calm retrospective view of his past experience and life. Thus disproves the suspicions and accusations of his friends, and shows that his complaints were sufficiently well-g...
EXPOSITION JOB 29:1 From these deep musings upon the nature of true wisdom, and the contrast between the ingenuity and cleverness of man and the infinite knowledge of God, Job turns to another contra...
Moreover Job continued (Job 29:1) He's got a lot to say. Bildad has run out, so Job thought, "I'll just keep going on." And now it's sort of a lament of the days before all of his afflictions. Lookin...
1 Kings 3:16; Deuteronomy 13:14; Deuteronomy 17:8; Ephesians 5:1;...