Job 29:12

“Because I delivered the poor that cried, etc.] This honour and esteem he had not because of his grandeur and riches, because of his worldly wealth and substance, but because of the goodness of his disposition, and because of the good he did to men, his acts of pity and compassion to the poor, and of the justice he did to all men; the poor and the afflicted, when they cried to him for help, he delivered them out of the hands of their oppressors: and the fatherless; the care and defence of which belongs to judges and civil magistrates, (see <198201>Psalm 82:1-4); [and him that] had none to help him; as the poor and fatherless seldom have; there is power on the side of the oppressors of them,…”

“The grounds on which Job was praised (Job 29:11), his helping the afflicted (Psa 72:12) who cried to him for help, as a judge, or as one possessed of means of charity. Translate: "The fatherless who had none to help him."”

“Because I delivered the poor that cried - This is spoken of himself as a magistrate or judge - for the whole description relates to that. The meaning is, that when the poor man, who had no means of employing counsel, brought his cause before him, he heard him and delivered him from the grasp of the oppressor. He never made an appeal to him in vain; compare Proverbs 21:13; Proverbs 24:11-12. And the fatherless - The orphan who brought his cause before him. He became the patron and protector of those whose natural protectors - their parents - had been removed by death; compare the notes at Isaiah 1:17. And him that had none to help him - The poor man who had no powerful patron. Job says that,…”

“I delivered: Job 22:5-9; Neh 5:2-13; Psa 72:12, Psa 82:2-4; Pro 21:13, Pro 24:11, Pro 24:12; Jer 22:16 the fatherless: Exo 22:22-24; Deu 10:18; Psa 68:5; Jam 1:27 Job 29:13”