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16. 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
(Pr 29:7
[UMBREIT]; contrast
Lu 18:1,
&c.). Applicable to almsgiving
(Ps 41:1);
but here primarily, judicial conscientiousness
(Job 31:13).
JFB.
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