Job 29:16

A Conservative Version

I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the case of him whom I did not know.

Cross References

Proverbs 29:7

A righteous man takes knowledge of the cause of the poor. A wicked man has no [such] understanding to know.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

Psalm 68:5

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

Job 31:18

(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and her I have guided from my mother's womb);

Job 24:4

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

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.

Ephesians 5:1

Become ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

Deuteronomy 13:14

then thou shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently. And, behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in the midst of thee,

Exodus 18:26

and they judged the people at all seasons. The hard cases they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled from God and the Father is this, to go help the orphaned and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Job 4:3

Behold, thou have instructed many, and thou have strengthened the weak hands.

Isaiah 22:21

And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy belt. 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.

Genesis 39:19

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

2 Samuel 14:8

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

Job 30:25

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

Job 31:31

if the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one who has not been filled with his food?

Job 31:32

(the sojourner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);