Job 29:16

Job's Final Defense

¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame; ¹⁶ I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out; ¹⁷ And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

Poor and Needy

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Proverbs 29:7

The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; the wicked understandeth not knowledge.

Exodus 18:26

And they judged the people at all times: the hard matters they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged.

Deuteronomy 13:14

then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and if it be truth, and the thing be certain, that this abomination hath happened 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 cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, matters of controversy within thy gates, then shalt thou arise, and go up to the place which Jehovah thy God will choose.

1 Kings 3:16-28

Then 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 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 afflicted of the land all hide themselves.

Job 31:18

(For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the widow 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 thing.

Ephesians 5:1

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children,

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.