And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.
Job 29:16 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I was a father to the poor: And the cause which I knew not I searched out. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I was a father to the poor and needy; the cause of him I did not know I searched out. American Standard Version (1901) I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out. Common English Bible I was a father to the needy; the case I didn’t know, I examined. Catholic Public Domain Version I was the father of the poor; and if I lacked knowledge about any case, I investigated very diligently. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently. |
And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.
And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.
And he brought up Hadas´sah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mor´decai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
(for from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! We cannot be satisfied.
The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveler.
Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
and I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.