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Job 29:12 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him, "
Job 29:12
Verse in Context
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10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
11 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it commended me,
12 because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
13 the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
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Job 29:1
"Job again took up his parable, and said,"
Job 29:2
"“Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;"
Job 29:3
"when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,"
Job 29:4
"as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,"
Job 29:5
"when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,"
Job 29:6
"when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,"
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