Job 29:16

Job's Final Defense

¹⁵ I was an eye unto the blind, and a foot to the lame; ¹⁶ I was a father unto the poor, and when I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligently. ¹⁷ I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of their teeth.

Poor and Needy

Job

Proverbs 29:7

The righteous considereth the cause of the poor, but the ungodly regardeth no understanding.

Exodus 18:26

And they judged the people at all seasons, and brought the hard causes unto Moses: and judged all small matters themselves.

Deuteronomy 13:14

Then seek and make search and enquire diligently. If it be true, and the thing of a surety that such abomination is wrought among you:

Deuteronomy 17:8-10

If a matter be too hard for thee in judgment between blood and blood, plea and plea, stroke and stroke in matters of strife within thy cities: Then arise and get thee up unto the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen,

1 Kings 3:16-28

Then came there two women that were harlots unto the king and stood before him.

Esther 2:7

and he nourished Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and she was a fair and beautiful damsel. And when her father and mother died, Mordecai received her as his own daughter.

Job 24:4

that thrust the poor out of the way, and oppress the simple of the world together.

Job 31:18

For mercy grew up with me from my youth, and compassion from my mother's womb.

Psalm 68:5

He is a father of the fatherless, he is a defender of widows; even God in his holy habitation.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the honour of God to keep a thing secret; but the king's honour is to search out a thing.

Ephesians 5:1

Be ye followers of God as dear children,

James 1:27

Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.