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Job 29:16 King James I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
So far was I from "breaking the arms of the fatherless," as Eliphaz asserts (Job 22:9), I was a "father" to such.

the cause which I knew not--rather, "of him whom I knew not," the stranger (Pro 29:7 [UMBREIT]; contrast Luk 18:1, &c.). Applicable to almsgiving (Psa 41:1); but here primarily, judicial conscientiousness (Job 31:13).
 
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13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
7 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.