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Job 29:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

16 I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

16 I was a father to the poor: And the cause which I knew not I searched out.

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

16 I was a father to the poor and needy; the cause of him I did not know I searched out.

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American Standard Version (1901)

16 I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

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Common English Bible

16 I was a father to the needy; the case I didn’t know, I examined.

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Catholic Public Domain Version

16 I was the father of the poor; and if I lacked knowledge about any case, I investigated very diligently.

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Job 29:16
19 Cross References  

The righteous know the rights of the poor; the wicked have no such understanding.


It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.


Father of orphans and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.


for from my youth I reared the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—


They thrust the needy off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.


He had brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his cousin, for she had neither father nor mother; the young woman was fair and beautiful, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai adopted her as his own daughter.


Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children,


then you shall inquire and make a thorough investigation. If the charge is established that such an abhorrent thing has been done among you,


And they judged the people at all times; hard cases they brought to Moses, but any minor case they decided themselves.


Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.


See, you have instructed many; you have strengthened the weak hands.


and will clothe him with your robe and bind your sash on him. I will commit your authority to his hand, and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.


When his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, saying, “This is the way your servant treated me,” he became enraged.


Then the king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.”


Did I not weep for those whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?


if those of my tent ever said, ‘O that we might be sated with his flesh!’—


the stranger has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the traveler—


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