Job 29:16
"I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out."
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- Proverbs 29:7
"The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 68:5
"A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 25:2
"It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter."
Read in chapter → - Job 24:4
"They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together."
Read in chapter → - Esther 2:7
"And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter."
Read in chapter → - Job 31:18
"(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)"
Read in chapter → - Ephesians 5:1
"Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;"
Read in chapter → - Deuteronomy 17:8
"If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;"
Read in chapter → - 1 Kings 3:16
"Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him."
Read in chapter → - Exodus 18:26
"And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves."
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