Job 29:12 - Exposition

Because I delivered the poor that cried . And again the Inscription of Ameni-Amenemha: "No little child have I injured; no widow have I oppressed; no fisherman have I hindered; no shepherd have I detained; no foreman have I taken from his gang to employ him in forced labour" (ibid; vol. 12.63). And the fatherless, and him that had none to help him . Championship of the poor was anciently regarded as characteristic of the wise, good, strong ruler.