Sympathy Should be Practical
Job 29:12
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.


An Italian coastguard officer reported a shipwreck to his Government in these words: "We saw the wreck, and we attempted to give every assistance possible through the speaking trumpet. We shouted ourselves quite hoarse, and notwithstanding which next morning twenty corpses were washed ashore." A well-known Scotch professor used to tell this story, and add: "Too much of our benevolence is of the speaking trumpet variety, and even this we boast about. The Samaritan of the New Testament represents the benevolence of which the world stands in greatest need."



Parallel Verses
KJV: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

WEB: Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,




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