12-17. The grounds on which Job was praised (Job 29:11), his helping the afflicted (Ps 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."

     14. mischief and spite—provocation and trouble of the sufferer (compare Ps 6:7; 7:14).