Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.

Cross References (12)

  • Proverbs 29:7 (7)

    The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked have no regard for such concerns.

  • Psalms 68:5 (4)

    A father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation.

  • Proverbs 25:2 (3)

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

  • Job 31:18 (3)

    though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—

  • Esther 2:7 (3)

    And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or

  • Job 24:4 (3)

    They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

  • Deuteronomy 17:8–10 (2)

    If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits,

  • Deuteronomy 13:14 (2)

    then you must inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. And if it is established with certainty that this abomin

  • Exodus 18:26 (2)

    And they judged the people at all times; they would bring the difficult cases to Moses, but any minor issue they would j

  • Ephesians 5:1 (2)

    Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,

  • 1 Kings 3:16–28 (2)

    At that time two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

  • James 1:27 (1)

    Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to