Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
Proverbs 29:7
The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; The wicked hath not understanding to know it .
Exodus 18:26
And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Deuteronomy 13:14
then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in the midst of thee,
Deuteronomy 17:8-10
If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates; then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose;
1 Kings 3:16-28
Then there came two women that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
Esther 2:7
And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.
Job 24:4
They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Job 31:18
(Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided 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 glory of kings is to search out a matter.
Ephesians 5:1
Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.