Job 29:16

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.

Cross References

Genesis 39:19

It happened, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, *This is what your servant did to me,* that his wrath was kindled.

2 Samuel 14:8

The king said to the woman, Go to your house, and I will give charge concerning you.

Esther 2:7

He brought up Hadassah, that is, Ester, his uncle's daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordekhai took her for his own daughter.

Job 24:4

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

Job 30:25

Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?

Job 31:18

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

Job 31:31

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

Job 31:32

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

Job 4:3

Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.

Psalm 68:5

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

Exodus 18:26

They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to Moshe, 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 care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren't concerned about knowledge.

Isaiah 22:21

and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, and to the house of Yehudah.

Ephesians 5:1

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

Deuteronomy 13:14

then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in the midst of you,

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 oneself unstained by the world.