Job 29:16
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I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
In other translations
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Proverbs 29:7The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked have no regard for such concerns.
- Psalm 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
- Job 24:4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
- Job 31:18(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—
- Esther 2:7And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her in as his own daughter.
- Proverbs 25:2It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.
- Deuteronomy 13:14Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;then you must inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. And if it is established with certainty that this abomination has been committed among you,
- 1 Kings 3:16-2816 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him. 17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. 18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house. 19 And this woman’s child died in the night; because she overlaid it.16 At that time two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. 17 One woman said, “Please, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth while she was in the house. 18 On the third day after I gave birth, this woman also had a baby. We were alone, with no one in the house but the two of us. 19 During the night this woman’s son died because she rolled over on him.
- Exodus 18:26And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.And they judged the people at all times; they would bring the difficult cases to Moses, but any minor issue they would judge themselves.
- Ephesians 5:1Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,
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