Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Because I used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper;
New American Standard Bible
And the
King James Version
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Holman Bible
and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.
International Standard Version
because I delivered the poor who were crying for help, along with orphans who had no one to help them.
A Conservative Version
Because I delivered the poor who cried, also the fatherless who had none to help him.
American Standard Version
Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.
Amplified
Because I rescued the poor who cried for help,
And the orphan who had no helper.
Bible in Basic English
For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.
Darby Translation
For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.
Julia Smith Translation
For I shall deliver the poor crying, and the orphan, and none helping to him.
King James 2000
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
because I saved [the] needy who cried for help, and [I saved] [the] orphan for whom [there was] no helper.
Modern King James verseion
For I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"For I delivered the poor when he cried, and the fatherless that wanted help.
NET Bible
for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him;
New Heart English Bible
Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,
Webster
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
World English Bible
Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,
Youngs Literal Translation
For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.
Themes
Beneficence » Instances of » Job
Fatherless » Blessedness of taking care of
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 29:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense
11 When, the ear, heard, then it pronounced me happy, When, the eye, saw, then it bare me witness; 12 Because I used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper; 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish, upon me was wont to descend, and, the heart of the widow, caused I to sing for joy;
Cross References
Psalm 72:12
Because he Rescueth, The needy from the rich, The oppressed, who hath no helper;
Proverbs 21:13
He that shutteth his ear from the cry of the poor, even he, shall call, and not be answered.
Exodus 22:22-24
Neither widow nor fatherless, shalt thou humiliate:
Deuteronomy 10:18
executing the vindication of the orphan and the widow, - and loving sojourner, giving him food and raiment.
Nehemiah 5:2-13
And there were some who were saying, Our sons and our daughters, are we pledging, - that we may obtain corn, and eat, and keep ourselves alive.
Job 22:5-9
Is not, thy wickedness, great? and, without end, are not thine iniquities?
Job 24:4
They turn aside the needy out of the way, at once, are the humbled of the land made to hide themselves.
Job 31:17
Or, used to eat my morsel alone, so that the fatherless did not eat thereof;
Job 31:21
If I shook - against the fatherless - my hand, when I saw, in the gate, his need of my help,
Psalm 68:5
The father of the fatherless, And the advocate of widows, Is God, in his holy habitation.
Proverbs 24:11-12
Deliver thou such as are being led forth to death, and, them who are tottering to slaughter, oh that thou wouldst hold back!
Jeremiah 22:16
Did he not plead the cause of the oppressed and the needy, And, then, it was well? Was not, that, to know, me? Demandeth Yahweh.
James 1:27
Religious observance, pure and undefiled with our God and Father, is, this - to be visiting orphans and widows in their affliction, unspotted, to keep, himself, from the world.