Job 29:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.

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  • Prov 29:7 : 7 The upright man gives attention to the cause of the poor: the evil-doer gives no thought to it.
  • Esth 2:7 : 7 And he had been a father to Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his father's brother: for she had no father or mother, and she was very beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his daughter.
  • Job 31:18 : 18 (For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)
  • Ps 68:5 : 5 A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.
  • Prov 25:2 : 2 It is the glory of God to keep a thing secret: but the glory of kings is to have it searched out.
  • Job 24:4 : 4 The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.
  • Exod 18:26 : 26 And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves.
  • Deut 13:14 : 14 Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;
  • Deut 17:8-9 : 8 If you are not able to give a decision as to who is responsible for a death, or who is right in a cause, or who gave the first blow in a fight, and there is a division of opinion about it in your town: then go to the place marked out by the Lord your God; 9 And come before the priests, the Levites, or before him who is judge at the time: and they will go into the question and give you a decision: 10 And you are to be guided by the decision they give in the place named by the Lord, and do whatever they say:
  • 1 Kgs 3:16-28 : 16 Then two loose women of the town came and took their places before the king; 17 And one of them said, O my lord, I and this woman are living in the same house; and I gave birth to a child by her side in the house. 18 And three days after the birth of my child, this woman had a child: we were together, no other-person was with us in the house but we two only. 19 In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death. 20 And she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was sleeping; and she took it in her arms and put her dead child in my arms. 21 And when I got up to give my child the breast, I saw that it was dead; but in the morning, looking at it with care, I saw that it was not my son. 22 And the other woman said, No; but the living child is my son and the dead one yours. But the first said, No; the dead child is your son and the living one mine. So they kept on talking before the king. 23 Then the king said, One says, The living child is my son, and yours is the dead: and the other says, Not so; but your son is the dead one and mine is the living. 24 Then he said, Get me a sword. So they went and put a sword before the king. 25 And the king said, Let the living child be cut in two and one half given to one woman and one to the other. 26 Then the mother of the living child came forward, for her heart went out to her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the child; do not on any account put it to death. But the other woman said, It will not be mine or yours; let it be cut in two. 27 Then the king made answer and said, Give her the child, and do not put it to death; she is the mother of it. 28 And news of this decision which the king had made went through all Israel; and they had fear of the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to give decisions.
  • Eph 5:1 : 1 Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.

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    11 For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me;

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    13 The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.

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    17 By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.

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    16 He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.

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    17 If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;

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  • Ps 10:14
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