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Job 29:16

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

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The just taketh notice of the cause of the poor: the wicked is void of knowledge.

It is the glory of God to conceal the word, and the glory of kings to search out the speech.

They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.

(For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb:)

They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth.

Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children;

Inquire carefully and diligently the truth of the thing by looking well into it: and if thou find that which is said to be certain, and that this abomination hath been really committed,

And they judged the people at all times: and whatsoever was of greater difficulty they referred to him: and they judged the easier cases only.

Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.

Behold, thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands.

And I will clothe him with thy robe, and will strengthen him with thy girdle, and will give thy power into his hand: and he shall be as a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Juda.

His master hearing these things, and giving too much credit to his wife's words, was very angry:

And the king said to the woman: Go to thy house; and I will give charge concerning thee.

I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted: and my soul had compassion on the poor.

If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?

The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.




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