Job 29:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.”
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BSBPD
“I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“A father I <FI>am<Fi> to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 29:16 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 39:19When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is what your slave did to me,” he burned with anger.
- Exodus 18:26And they judged the people at all times; they would bring the difficult cases to Moses, but any minor issue they would judge themselves.
- Deuteronomy 13:14then you must inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. And if it is established with certainty that this abomination has been committed among you,
- Deuteronomy 17:8If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose.
- 2 Samuel 14:8“Go home,” the king said to the woman, “and I will give orders on your behalf.”
- 1 Kings 3:16At that time two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.
- Esther 2:7And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her in as his own daughter.
- Job 24:4They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
- Job 30:25Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
- Job 31:18though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—
- Job 31:31if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—
- Job 31:32but no stranger had to lodge on the street, for my door has been open to the traveler—
- Psalms 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
- Proverbs 25:2It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.
- Proverbs 29:7The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked have no regard for such concerns.
- Ephesians 5:1Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,
- James 1:27Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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