Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor; and the cause which I did not know, I searched out.
Proverbs 29:7
The righteous knows the plea of the poor; the wicked cares not to know it.
Exodus 18:26
And they judged the people at all times. The hard causes they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Deuteronomy 13:14
then you shall inquire and make search, and ask carefully. And behold, if it is true, and the thing is certain, that such an abomination is done among you,
Deuteronomy 17:8-10
If a matter is too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, matters of strife within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which Jehovah your God shall choose.
1 Kings 3:16-28
Then there came two women, harlots, to 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 young woman was fair and beautiful, whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Job 24:4
They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Job 31:18
for from my youth he grew up with me, as with a father, and from my mother's womb I guided her;
Psalm 68:5
In His holy dwelling God is the father of the fatherless, and the judge of the widows.
Proverbs 25:2
The glory of God is to hide a thing; but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.
Ephesians 5:1
Therefore be followers of God, as dear children.
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.