Job 29:16

Job's Final Defense

¹⁵ “I was eyes to the blind
And feet to the lame.
¹⁶ “I was a father to the needy,
And I investigated the case which I did not know.
¹⁷ “I broke the jaws of the wicked
And snatched the prey from his teeth.

Poor and Needy

Job

Proverbs 29:7

The righteous is concerned for the rights of the poor,
The wicked does not understand such concern.

Exodus 18:26

They judged the people at all times; the difficult dispute they would bring to Moses, but every minor dispute they themselves would judge.

Deuteronomy 13:14

then you shall investigate and search out and inquire thoroughly. If it is true and the matter established that this abomination has been done among you,

Deuteronomy 17:8-10

“If any case is too difficult for you to decide, between one kind of homicide or another, between one kind of lawsuit or another, and between one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your courts, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God chooses.

1 Kings 3:16-28

Then two women who were harlots came to the king and stood before him.

Esther 2:7

He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had no father or mother. Now the young lady was beautiful of form and face, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.

Job 24:4

“They push the needy aside from the road;
The poor of the land are made to hide themselves altogether.

Job 31:18

(But from my youth he grew up with me as with a father,
And from infancy I guided her),

Psalm 68:5

A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter,
But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

Ephesians 5:1

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children;

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.