Job 29:16

The Scriptures 1998

I was a father to the poor, and I investigated the case which I did not know.

Cross References

Genesis 39:19

And it came to be, when his master heard the words which his wife spoke to him, saying, “Your servant did to me according to these words,” that his displeasure burned.

2 Samuel 14:8

And the sovereign said to the woman, “Go to your house, and let me give orders concerning you.”

Esther 2:7

And it came to be that he was raising Haḏ

Job 24:4

they turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth have hidden together.

Job 30:25

Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Was my being not grieved for the poor?

Job 31:18

but 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 tent did not say, ‘Who is there that has not been satisfied with his meat?’

Job 31:32

The stranger did not have to spend the night in the street, for I have opened my doors to the way.

Job 4:3

See, you have instructed many, and you have made weak hands strong.

Psalm 68:5

Father of the fatherless, And Right-ruler of widows, Is Elohim in His set-apart dwelling.

Exodus 18:26

And they rightly ruled the people at all times – the hard matters they brought to Mosheh, but they rightly ruled every small matter themselves.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the esteem of Elohim to hide a matter, And the esteem of sovereigns to search out a matter.

Proverbs 29:7

The righteous knows the plea of the poor, The wrong does not understand such knowledge.

Isaiah 22:21

‘And I shall put your robe on him, and strengthen him with your girdle, and give your authority into his hand. And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim and to the house of Yehuḏ

Ephesians 5:1

Become, then, imitators of Elohim as beloved children.

Deuteronomy 13:14

then you shall inquire, search out, and ask diligently. And see if the matter is true and established that this abomination was done in your midst,

James 1:27

Clean and undefiled religion before the Elohim and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.