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 poor, and I investigated {the stranger's} legal dispute. ¹⁷ And I broke [the] evil one's jaw bones, and I made [his] prey drop from his teeth.

Poor and Needy

Job

Proverbs 29:7

[The] righteous knows [the] case of the poor, but [the] wicked does not understand knowledge.

Exodus 18:26

And they judged the people all the time; the difficult issues they would bring to Moses, and every minor issue they would judge themselves.

Deuteronomy 13:14

then you shall inquire and examine and interrogate thoroughly, and, look! [It is] true; the thing has actually been done, this detestable thing in your midst,

Deuteronomy 17:8-10

"{If a matter is too difficult for you}, [for example disputes] between blood and blood, between legal claim and legal claim and between assault and assault [and between] matters of discernment in your {towns}, then you shall get up and you shall go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose;

1 Kings 3:16-28

Then two prostitutes came to the king, and they stood before him.

Esther 2:7

He was raising Hadassah, that [is] Esther, his uncle's daughter, for she did not have a father or a mother; the young woman [had] a beautiful figure and [was] very attractive. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had taken her as his daughter.

Job 24:4

They thrust [the] poor off the road; [the] needy of [the] earth hide themselves together.

Job 31:18

(for from my childhood he {grew up with} me like a father, and from my mother's womb I guided her),

Psalm 68:5

A father to orphans and a judge for widows [is] God in his holy habitation.

Proverbs 25:2

The glory of God conceals things, but the glory of kings searches out things.

Ephesians 5:1

Therefore become imitators of God, as beloved children,

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unstained by the world.