Job 29:16

Job's Final Defense

¹⁵ Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame am I. ¹⁶ A father I am to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out. ¹⁷ And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.

Poor and Needy

Job

Proverbs 29:7

The righteous knoweth the plea of the poor, The wicked understandeth not knowledge.

Exodus 18:26

and they have judged the people at all times; the hard matter they bring in unto Moses, and every small matter they judge themselves.

Deuteronomy 13:14

and thou hast enquired, and searched, and asked diligently, and lo, truth; the thing is established; this abomination hath been done in thy midst:

Deuteronomy 17:8-10

When anything is too hard for thee for judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke -- matters of strife within thy gates -- then thou hast risen, and gone up unto the place on which Jehovah thy God doth fix,

1 Kings 3:16-28

then come in do two women, harlots, unto the king, and stand before him,

Esther 2:7

and he is supporting Hadassah -- she is Esther -- daughter of his uncle, for she hath neither father nor mother, and the young woman is of fair form, and of good appearance, and at the death of her father and her mother hath Mordecai taken her to him for a daughter.

Job 24:4

They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.

Job 31:18

(But from my youth He grew up with me as with a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)

Psalm 68:5

Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, Is God in His holy habitation.

Proverbs 25:2

The honour of God is to hide a thing, And the honour of kings to search out a matter.

Ephesians 5:1

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

James 1:27

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.