Job 29:16

Job's Final Defense

¹⁵ Eyes, became I to the, blind, and, feet to the lame, was, I! ¹⁶ A father, was, I, to the needy, and, as for the cause which I knew not, I used to search it out; ¹⁷ And I shivered the fangs of the perverse, - and, out of his teeth, I tare the prey.

Poor and Needy

Job

Proverbs 29:7

The righteous doth acknowledge the plea of the poor, but, the lawless, regardeth not knowledge.

Exodus 18:26

And they shall judge the people, at any time, - the hard matters, shall they bring in unto Moses, but all the small matters, shall, they themselves, judge.

Deuteronomy 13:14

and thou shalt enquire, and search out, and ask diligently, - and lo! true - certain, is the thing, this abomination, hath been done, in thy midst,

Deuteronomy 17:8-10

When any matter of judgment, shall be too difficult for thee - between blood and blood between plea and plea or between stroke and stroke, matters of contention within thy gates, then shalt thou arise and go up unto the place which Yahweh thy God shall choose;

1 Kings 3:16-28

Then, came there in two unchaste women, unto the king, - and stood before him.

Esther 2:7

And it came to pass, that he was bringing up Hadassah, the same, was Esther, his uncle's daughter, for she had neither father nor mother, - and, the maiden, was of beautiful form and pleasing appearance, and when her father and mother died, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

Job 24:4

They turn aside the needy out of the way, at once, are the humbled of the land made to hide themselves.

Job 31:18

Surely, from my youth, he grew up to me, as to a father, and, from my birth, I acted as guide to her:

Psalm 68:5

The father of the fatherless, And the advocate of widows, Is God, in his holy habitation.

Proverbs 25:2

The glory of God, is to conceal a thing, but, the glory of kings, is to search out a thing.

Ephesians 5:1

Become ye, therefore, imitators of God, as children beloved,

James 1:27

Religious observance, pure and undefiled with our God and Father, is, this - to be visiting orphans and widows in their affliction, unspotted, to keep, himself, from the world.