Verse List for JOB 29:16

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Iyyov (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) I was a father for the needy, ⇔ ≈ and I helped strangers present their cases.

OET-LV was_a _father I to_people and_a _case _at _law of_the _one _whom_not I _knew I_investigated _it.

ULT I, was a father to the needy, ⇔  and the case, that I did not know, I examined it.

UST I protected poor people the way a father protects his children. ⇔  In the courts, I defended even people who were strangers to me.

BSB & MSB I was a father to the needy, ⇔  and I took up the case of the stranger.

OEB No OEB JOB book available

WEBBE & WMBB I was a father to the needy. ⇔  I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.

NET I was a father to the needy, ⇔ and I investigated the case of the person I did not know;

LSV I [am] a father to the needy,
And the cause I have not known I search out.

FBV I was like a father to the poor, and I defended the rights of strangers.

T4T I was like [MET] a father to poor people, ⇔  and in courts I defended those who were strangers.

LEB • I was a father to the poor,
• and I investigated the stranger’s[fn] legal dispute.

BBE I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.

Moff I was a father to protect the poor, ⇔  taking their case up, though it was not mine;

JPS I was a father to the needy; and the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

ASV I was a father to the needy: ⇔ And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

DRA I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.

YLT A father I [am] to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.

Drby I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;

RV I was a father to the needy: and the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

SLT I was a father to the needy, and the contention I knew not I shall search it out.

Wbstr I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

KJB-1769 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

KJB-1611 I was a father to the poore: and the cause which I knewe not, I searched out.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps I was a father to the poore: and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.
(I was a father to the poor: and when I knew not the cause, I sought it out diligently.)

Gnva I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.
(I was a father unto the poor, and when I knew not the cause, I sought it out diligently.)

Cvdl I was a father vnto the poore, & whe I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligetly.
(I was a father unto the poor, and when I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligently.)

Wycl Y was a fadir of pore men; and Y enqueride most diligentli the cause, which Y knew not.
(I was a father of poor men; and I enquired most diligently the cause, which I knew not.)

Luth Ich war ein Vater der Armen; und welche Sache ich nicht wußte, die erforschete ich.
(I what/which a father the/of_the poor_(one); and which matter I not knew, the explored I.)

ClVg Pater eram pauperum, et causam quam nesciebam diligentissime investigabam.[fn]
(Father/Chief I_was of_the_poor, and cause how nesciebam diligentissime investigabam.)

UHB אָ֣ב אָ֭נֹכִֽי לָֽ⁠אֶבְיוֹנִ֑ים וְ⁠רִ֖ב לֹא־יָדַ֣עְתִּי אֶחְקְרֵֽ⁠הוּ׃ ‡

BrLXX Ἐγὼ ἤμην πατὴρ ἀδυνάτων, δίκην δὲ ἣν οὐκ ᾔδειν ἐξιχνίασα.

BrTr I was the father of the helpless; and I searched out the cause which I knew not.