Job 29:16 - Exposition

I was a father to the poor (comp. Job 29:12 , and see below, Job 31:16-22 ): and the cause which I knew not I searched out ; rather, the cause of him that I knew not I searched out (see the Revised Version). When men were quite unknown to him, Job still gave to their causes the utmost possible attention, "searching them out," or investigating them, as diligently as if they had been the causes of his own friends.