Job 29:16

Job's Final Defense

¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking. ¹⁶ I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me. ¹⁷ By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.

Poor and Needy

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Proverbs 29:7

The upright man gives attention to the cause of the poor: the evil-doer gives no thought to it.

Exodus 18:26

And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves.

Deuteronomy 13:14

Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;

Deuteronomy 17:8-10

If you are not able to give a decision as to who is responsible for a death, or who is right in a cause, or who gave the first blow in a fight, and there is a division of opinion about it in your town: then go to the place marked out by the Lord your God;

1 Kings 3:16-28

Then two loose women of the town came and took their places before the king;

Esther 2:7

And he had been a father to Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his father's brother: for she had no father or mother, and she was very beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his daughter.

Job 24:4

The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.

Job 31:18

(For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)

Psalm 68:5

A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to keep a thing secret: but the glory of kings is to have it searched out.

Ephesians 5:1

Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;

James 1:27

The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.