Job 29:16 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁶ I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case of one I did not know.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ I was a father to the poor: And the cause which I knew not I searched out.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ I was a father to the poor and needy; the cause of him I did not know I searched out.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ I was a father to the needy; the case I didn’t know, I examined.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ I was the father of the poor; and if I lacked knowledge about any case, I investigated very diligently.

Job 29:16 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 39:19

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.

2 Samuel 14:8

Then the king said to the woman, “Go to your home. I will issue an order concerning you.”

Esther 2:7

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.

Job 24:4

They turn the needy off the path; they force the poor of the land into hiding.

Job 30:25

Have I not wept for the unfortunate? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

Job 31:18

(but from my youth I reared him as a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided her),

Job 31:31

if anyone in my household has ever said, ‘Who has not been filled with his meat?’

Job 31:32

—but no stranger had to spend the night outside for my door was open to the traveler—

Job 4:3

Behold, you have instructed many; you have strengthened weak hands.

Psalm 68:5

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.

Exodus 18:26

They judged the people all the time. The hard cases they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.

Proverbs 29:7

A righteous person considers justice for the poor. The wicked one has no such concern.

Isaiah 22:21

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.

Ephesians 5:1

Therefore be imitators of God, as dearly loved children;

Deuteronomy 13:14

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.

James 1:27

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.