King James Version (KJV)

Job 29:16

“I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out.”

Verse in context — Job 29

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe and a diadem.

I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame.

I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out.

And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply [my] days as the sand.

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