Job 29:16

Modern King James Version

I was a father to the poor; and the cause which I did not know, I searched out.

Cross References

Genesis 39:19

And it happened when his master heard the words of his wife which she spoke to him, saying, Your servant did this to me, his wrath was kindled.

2 Samuel 14:8

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

Esther 2:7

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

Job 24:4

They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Job 30:25

Did I not weep for him whose day was hard; and my soul grieved for the poor?

Job 31:18

for from my youth he grew up with me, as with a father, and from my mother's womb I guided her;

Job 31:31

if the men of my camp did not say, Who can find one who has not been satisfied with his meat?

Job 31:32

The stranger did not sleep in the street, for I opened my doors to the traveler.

Job 4:3

Behold, you have instructed many, and you have made the weak hands strong.

Psalm 68:5

In His holy dwelling God is the father of the fatherless, and the judge of the widows.

Exodus 18:26

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

Proverbs 25:2

The glory of God is to hide a thing; but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.

Proverbs 29:7

The righteous knows the plea of the poor; the wicked cares not to know it.

Isaiah 22:21

and I will clothe him with your robe, and will fasten your girdle on him, and I will give your authority into his hand. And he shall be a father to the people of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

Ephesians 5:1

Therefore be followers of God, as dear children.

Deuteronomy 13:14

then you shall inquire and make search, and ask carefully. And behold, if it is true, and the thing is certain, that such an abomination is done among you,

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.