When his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, saying, “This is the way your servant treated me,” he became enraged.
Job 29:16 - New Revised Standard Version I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger. 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. |
When his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, saying, “This is the way your servant treated me,” he became enraged.
Then the king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.”
Mordecai had brought up Hadassah, that is Esther, his cousin, for she had neither father nor mother; the girl was fair and beautiful, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai adopted her as his own daughter.
They thrust the needy off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Did I not weep for those whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
for from my youth I reared the orphan like a father, and from my mother's womb I guided the widow —
if those of my tent ever said, ‘O that we might be sated with his flesh!’ —
the stranger has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the traveler—
Father of orphans and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.
And they judged the people at all times; hard cases they brought to Moses, but any minor case they decided themselves.
It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.
The righteous know the rights of the poor; the wicked have no such understanding.
and will clothe him with your robe and bind your sash on him. I will commit your authority to his hand, and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
then you shall inquire and make a thorough investigation. If the charge is established that such an abhorrent thing has been done among you,
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.