Job 29:16

Job's Final Defense

¹⁵ I was eyes for the blind and feet for the lame; ¹⁶ I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case of the person I did not know; ¹⁷ I broke the fangs of the wicked, and made him drop his prey from his teeth.

Poor and Needy

Job

Proverbs 29:7

The righteous person cares for the legal rights of the poor; the wicked does not understand such knowledge.

Exodus 18:26

They judged the people under normal circumstances; the difficult cases they would bring to Moses, but every small case they would judge themselves.

Deuteronomy 13:14

You must investigate thoroughly and inquire carefully. If it is indeed true that such a disgraceful thing is being done among you,

Deuteronomy 17:8-10

If a matter is too difficult for you to judge -- bloodshed, legal claim, or assault -- matters of controversy in your villages -- you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses.

1 Kings 3:16-28

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

Esther 2:7

Now he was acting as the guardian of Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, for neither her father nor her mother was alive. This young woman was very attractive and had a beautiful figure. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had raised her as if she were his own daughter.

Job 24:4

They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.

Job 31:18

but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother's womb I guided the widow!

Psalm 68:5

He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy palace.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, and it is the glory of a king to search out a matter.

Ephesians 5:1

Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.