Job 29:16

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

Proverbs 29:7

The righteous considers the cause of the poor: but the wicked regards not such knowledge.

Exodus 18:26

And they judged the people at all times: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

Deuteronomy 13:14

Then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;

Deuteronomy 17:8-10

If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between bloodsheds, between legal rights, and between assaults, being matters of controversy within your gates: then shall you arise, and get you up into the place which the LORD your God shall choose;

1 Kings 3:16-28

Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.

Esther 2:7

And he had brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took as his own daughter.

Job 24:4

They drive the needy off the road: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Job 31:18

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided him from my mother's womb;)

Psalm 68:5

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.

Ephesians 5:1

Be you therefore followers of God, as dear children;

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

General references

Bible References

The cause

Exodus 18:26
And they judged the people at all times: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Deuteronomy 13:14
Then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
Deuteronomy 17:8
If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between bloodsheds, between legal rights, and between assaults, being matters of controversy within your gates: then shall you arise, and get you up into the place which the LORD your God shall choose;
1 Kings 3:16
Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.
Proverbs 29:7
The righteous considers the cause of the poor: but the wicked regards not such knowledge.

General references

Proverbs 31:9
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.