Job 29:16

King James 2000

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

Cross References

Proverbs 29:7

The righteous considers the cause of the poor: but the wicked regards not such knowledge.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor 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

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided him from my mother’s womb;)

Job 24:4

They drive the needy off the road: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Esther 2:7

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

Ephesians 5:1

Be you therefore followers of God, as dear 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 wrought among you;

Exodus 18:26

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

James 1:27

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

Job 4:3

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

Isaiah 22:21

And I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt, and I will commit your authority 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 unto him, saying, After this manner did your servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.

2 Samuel 14:8

And the king said unto the woman, Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.

Job 30:25

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

Job 31:31

If the men of my tent have not, Oh that we had of his meat! we cannot be satisfied.

Job 31:32

The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveler.