Job 29:13

Ready to perish. He refers to the man who was falsely accused and was in danger of execution, or the man who was near death as the result of poverty and want. There is no gratitude more enthusiastic and sincere than that of a person whose benefactor has delivered him from imminent death.

Widow’s heart. Job lived in a day when the survival of the helpless classes, such as widows and orphans, was dependent on the largeheartedness of sympathetic persons. There was no “welfare state,” such as exists in some lands today, to meet human need. Such men as Job brought great happiness to those whose support had been taken away.