Job 29:16

Job's Final Defense

¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and I was feet to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the case of him whom I did not know. ¹⁷ And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

Poor and Needy

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Proverbs 29:7

A righteous man takes knowledge of the cause of the poor. A wicked man has no [such] understanding to know.

Exodus 18:26

and they judged the people at all seasons. The hard cases they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

Deuteronomy 13:14

then thou shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently. And, behold, if it be true, 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 thou shall arise, and get thee up to the plac

1 Kings 3:16-28

Then two women who were harlots came 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 poor of the earth all hide themselves.

Job 31:18

(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and her I have 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

Become ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled from God and the Father is this, to go help the orphaned and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.