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Job 29:16

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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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  1. Job 29:14

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

  2. Job 29:15

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

  3. Job 29:17

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

  4. Job 29:18

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

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.