Job 29:12
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What does Job 29:12 mean?
Because I delivered the poor that cried
This honour and esteem he had not because of his grandeur and
riches, because of his worldly wealth and substance, but because
of the goodness of his disposition, and because of the good he
did to men, his acts of pity and compassion to the poor, and of
the justice he did to all men; the poor and the afflicted, when
they cried to him for help, he delivered them out of the hands of
their oppressors:
and the fatherless;
the care and defence of which belongs to judges and civil
magistrates, see ( Psalms
82:1-4 ) ;
[and him that] had none to help him;
as the poor and fatherless seldom have; there is power on the
side of the oppressors of them, but they have few or none to take
their parts, and to be their comforters, ( Ecclesiastes
4:1 ) ; in these instances Job imitated God, and was a
follower of him, as a dear child of his; who, when this and the
other poor man cries unto him, he hears, saves, and delivers out
of all their troubles; he is the helper, yea, the father of the
fatherless, and the judge of the widow; and, when there is no
help from men, he is a present help in times of need.
