Job 29:16

Job's Final Defense

¹⁵ Eyes was I to the blind one, and feet to the lame was I. ¹⁶ I was a father to the needy, and the contention I knew not I shall search it out ¹⁷ And I shall break the biter's teeth of the evil one, and I shall cast the prey from his teeth.

Poor and Needy

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Proverbs 29:7

The just one knew the judgment of the poor: the unjust one will not understand knowledge.

Exodus 18:26

And they judged the people in all time; and the hard word they brought to Moses, and every small word they will judge themselves.

Deuteronomy 13:14

And seek, and examine, and ask, doing well; and behold, the truth and the word certain this abomination being done in the midst of you;

Deuteronomy 17:8-10

When a word shall be hard for thee for judging between blood to blood, between controversy to controversy, and between blow to blow, words of contention in thy gates; and thou didst arise and go up to the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose in it;

1 Kings 3:16-28

Then will come two women, harlots, to the king, and they will stand before him.

Esther 2:7

And he will be nourishing Hadassah (this is Esther) his uncle's daughter: for not to her, father and mother, and the maiden beautiful of form and good of aspect; and in the death of her father and her mother; Mordecai took her to him for a daughter.

Job 24:4

They will turn the needy from the Way: the poor of the earth hid themselves together.

Job 31:18

(For from my youth he grew up to me as a father, and I shall guide her from my mother's womb;)

Psalm 68:5

A father of orphans and a judge of widows, God in his holy habitation.

Proverbs 25:2

The glory of God to conceal the word: and the glory of kings to search the word.

Ephesians 5:1

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as dearly beloved children;

James 1:27

Religion pure and unpolluted before God and the Father is this, To take a view of the orphans and widows in their pressure, to keep himself free from stain from the world.