Job 29:12

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez

Porque yo libraba al pobre que clamaba, y al huérfano que carecía de ayudador.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
porque yo libraba al pobre que clamaba, y al huérfano que no tenía quien le ayudara.

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Porque libraba al pobre que gritaba, Y al hu�rfano que carec�a de ayudador.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Porque libraba al pobre que gritaba, y al hu�rfano que carec�a de ayudador.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I delivered: Job 22:5-9, Nehemiah 5:2-13, Psalms 72:12, Psalms 82:2-4, Proverbs 21:13, Proverbs 24:11, Proverbs 24:12, Jeremiah 22:16

the fatherless: Exodus 22:22-24, Deuteronomy 10:18, Psalms 68:5, James 1:27

Reciprocal: Ruth 2:20 - Blessed 2 Samuel 14:4 - Help Job 4:6 - the uprightness Job 6:27 - the fatherless Job 15:34 - the tabernacles Job 16:17 - Not for Job 22:9 - widows Job 31:21 - lifted Job 34:28 - they Job 36:6 - giveth Psalms 41:1 - Blessed Psalms 82:4 - Deliver Proverbs 21:15 - joy Proverbs 22:22 - oppress Proverbs 31:9 - General Jeremiah 5:28 - judge Jeremiah 22:3 - do no violence Amos 5:24 - let

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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;

[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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Because I delivered the poor that cried - This is spoken of himself as a magistrate or judge - for the whole description relates to that. The meaning is, that when the poor man, who had no means of employing counsel, brought his cause before him, he heard him and delivered him from the grasp of the oppressor. He never made an appeal to him in vain; compare Proverbs 21:13; Proverbs 24:11-12.

And the fatherless - The orphan who brought his cause before him. He became the patron and protector of those whose natural protectors - their parents - had been removed by death; compare the notes at Isaiah 1:17.

And him that had none to help him - The poor man who had no powerful patron. Job says that, as a magistrate, he particularly regarded the cause of such persons, and saw that justice was done them - a beautiful image of the administration of justice in patriarchal times. This is the sense in which our translators understood this. But the parallelism seems rather to require that this should be applied to the fatherless who had no one to aid him, and the Hebrew, by understanding the ו (w) conjunctive as meaning “when,” will bear this construction. So it is understood by Rosenmuller, Umbreit, Herder, and Noyes.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 29:12. Because I delivered the poor that cried — This appears to be intended as a refutation of the charges produced by Eliphaz, Job 22:5-10, to confute which Job appeals to facts, and to public testimony.