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 considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.

Exodus 18:26

And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought to 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 is truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;

Deuteronomy 17:8-10

If there shall 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 go up to the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;

1 Kings 3:16-28

Then came there two women, that were 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 maid 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 was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her 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 ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before God and 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 seasons: the hard causes they brought to 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 is truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
Deuteronomy 17:8
If there shall 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 go up to the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
1 Kings 3:16
Then came there two women, that were harlots, to 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 considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.

General references

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