Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
All Commentaries on Job 29:12 Go To Job 29
John Chrysostom
AD 407
In order to explain why they proclaimed him to be blessed, he mentions his good works. “I have saved,” he says, “the poor from the hand of the powerful,” but it is after attributing to God the merit of protecting and watching him that “he is glorified in the Lord.”
