Job 29:16

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.

Cross References

Genesis 39:19

When his master heard the words which his wife spoke to him, “This is the way your servant treated me,” his anger was kindled.

2 Samuel 14:8

Then the king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.”

Esther 2:7

He had brought up Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother; the maiden was beautiful and lovely, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai adopted her as his own daughter.

Job 24:4

They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.

Job 30:25

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

Job 31:18

(for from his youth I reared him as a father, and from his mother's womb I guided him);

Job 31:31

if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who is there that has not been filled with his meat?’

Job 31:32

(the sojourner has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the wayfarer);

Job 4:3

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

Psalm 68:5

Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

Exodus 18:26

And they judged the people at all times; hard cases they brought to Moses, but any small matter they decided themselves.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.

Proverbs 29:7

A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.

Isaiah 22:21

and I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your girdle on him, and will commit your authority to his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

Ephesians 5:1

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

Deuteronomy 13:14

then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently; and behold, if it be true and certain that such an abominable thing has been done among you,

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.