Holy Scripture
Job 29:16
A church father on this verse
“I was an eye to the blind, and a foot was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not I searched out. [HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION] Herein the mind of the reader might perchance put the question, wherefore it is that blessed Job reckons up his own virtue with so much particularity. For it i…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
16I was the father of the helpless; And I searched out the cause which I knew not.
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14Also I put on righteousness, And clothed myself with judgment like a mantle.
15I was the eye of the blind, And the foot of the lame.
— Job 29:16 —
17And I broke the jaw teeth of the unrighteous; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth.
18And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm tree; I shall live a long while.