When his master heard the words which his wife spoke to him, “This is the way your servant treated me,” his anger was kindled.
Job 29:16 - Revised Standard Version I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know. 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 which his wife spoke to him, “This is the way your servant treated me,” his anger was kindled.
Then the king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.”
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.
They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
(for from his youth I reared him as a father, and from his mother's womb I guided him);
if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who is there that has not been filled with his meat?’
(the sojourner has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the wayfarer);
Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
Father of the fatherless 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 small matter they decided themselves.
It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.
A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.
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.
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,
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.