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.

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.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Job 29:16 Cross References

Proverbs 29:7

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

Proverbs 25:2

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

Psalm 68:5

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

Job 31:18

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

Job 24:4

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

Esther 2:7

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.

Ephesians 5:1

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children,

Deuteronomy 13:14

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

Exodus 18:26

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

James 1:27

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.

Job 4:3

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

Isaiah 22:21

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.

Genesis 39:19

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

2 Samuel 14:8

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

Job 30:25

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

Job 31:31

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

Job 31:32

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