Now when his master heard the words his wife spoke to him saying, “Such are the things your slave did to me,” his anger burned.
Job 29:16 - Tree of Life Version I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case of one 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. |
Now when his master heard the words his wife spoke to him saying, “Such are the things your slave did to me,” his anger burned.
Then the king said to the woman, “Go to your home. I will issue an order concerning you.”
He had raised Hadassah—that is Esther—his uncle’s daughter, for she had neither father nor mother. The girl was attractive and had a beautiful figure. When her father and mother died, Mordecai took her to him as his own daughter.
They turn the needy off the path; they force the poor of the land into hiding.
Have I not wept for the unfortunate? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
(but from my youth I reared him as a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided her),
if anyone in my household has ever said, ‘Who has not been filled with his meat?’
—but no stranger had to spend the night outside for my door was open to the traveler—
Sing to God, sing praises to His Name. Prepare the road for Him who rides through the deserts, whose Name is Adonai— and rejoice before Him.
They judged the people all the time. The hard cases they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.
A righteous person considers justice for the poor. The wicked one has no such concern.
I will clothe him in your robe and fasten your sash on him. I will give your authority into his hands, so he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
that worthless fellows have gone out from among you and enticed the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let’s go and serve other gods’—that you have not known.
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.