Job 29:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.

Job 29:16 Cross References

Genesis 39:19

And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.

2 Samuel 14:8

And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

Esther 2:7

And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

Job 24:4

They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Job 30:25

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

Job 31:18

(Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And I have been her guide from my mother's womb;)

Job 31:31

If the men of my tent said not, Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his flesh?

Job 31:32

The stranger did not lodge in the street; But I opened my doors to the traveller;

Job 4:3

Behold, thou hast instructed many, And thou hast strengthened the weak hands

Psalm 68:5

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.

Exodus 18:26

And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

Proverbs 29:7

The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor: The wicked hath not understanding to know it.

Isaiah 22:21

and I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

Ephesians 5:1

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

Deuteronomy 13:14

then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in the midst of thee;

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.