Job 29:16

American Standard Version 2015

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

Cross References

Proverbs 29:7

The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor;\par\tab The wicked hath not understanding to know {\i it}.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing;\par\tab 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,\par\tab Is God in his holy habitation.

Job 31:18

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

Job 24:4

They turn the needy out of the way:\par\tab 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.\par

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,

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.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before {\i our} God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, {\i and} to keep oneself unspotted from the world.\par

Job 4:3

Behold, thou hast instructed many,\par\tab And thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

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.

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 thy house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

Job 30:25

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

Job 31:31

If the men of my tent have not said,\par\tab Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat?

Job 31:32

(The sojourner hath not lodged in the street;\par\tab But I have opened my doors to the traveller);