Job 29:16

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 29:7

The just taketh notice of the cause of the poor: the wicked is void of knowledge.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal the word, and the glory of kings to search out the speech.

Psalm 68:5

They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.

Job 31:18

(For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb:)

Job 24:4

They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth.

Ephesians 5:1

Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children;

Deuteronomy 13:14

Inquire carefully and diligently the truth of the thing by looking well into it: and if thou find that which is said to be certain, and that this abomination hath been really committed,

Exodus 18:26

And they judged the people at all times: and whatsoever was of greater difficulty they referred to him: and they judged the easier cases only.

James 1:27

Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.

Job 4:3

Behold, thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands.

Isaiah 22:21

And I will clothe him with thy robe, and will strengthen him with thy girdle, and will give thy power into his hand: and he shall be as a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Juda.

Genesis 39:19

His master hearing these things, and giving too much credit to his wife's words, was very angry:

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

I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted: and my soul had compassion on the poor.

Job 31:31

If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?

Job 31:32

The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.