Job 29:16

Bishops' Bible (1568)

I was a father to the poore: and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.

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  • Prov 29:7 : 7 The righteous considereth the cause of the poore: but the vngodly regardeth no vnderstandyng.
  • Esth 2:7 : 7 And he norished Hadassa (that is Esther) his vncles daughter: for he had neither father nor mother, and she was a faire and beautifull mayden, whom Mardocheus (when her father & mother were dead) receaued for his owne daughter.
  • Job 31:18 : 18 (For from my youth it hath growen vp with me as with a father, and from my mothers wombe I haue ben guyde to the wydowe)
  • Ps 68:5 : 5 He is a father of the fatherlesse, and the iudge of widdowes: he is the Lord in his holy habitation.
  • Prov 25:2 : 2 It is the glory of God to kepe a thing secrete: but the kynges honour is to searche out a thing.
  • Job 24:4 : 4 They cause the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hyde them selues together.
  • Exod 18:26 : 26 And they iudged the people at all seasons: but brought the harde causes vnto Moyses, and iudged all small matters them selues.
  • Deut 13:14 : 14 Then thou must seeke, & make searche and enquire diligently: And behold, if it be true, & the thing of a suretie, that such ahbomination is wrought among you:
  • Deut 17:8-9 : 8 If there rise a matter to harde for thee in iudgement betweene blood and blood, betweene plea and plea, betweene plague and plague, and the matters come to strife within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee vp vnto the place whiche the Lorde thy God hath chosen, 9 And come vnto the priestes the Leuites, and vnto the iudge that shalbe in those dayes, and aske: and they shall shewe thee the sentence of iudgement. 10 And thou must do accordyng to that which they of that place (which the Lord had chosen) shewe thee, and thou shalt obserue to do accordyng to all that they enfourme thee:
  • 1 Kgs 3:16-28 : 16 Then came there two women that were harlottes, vnto the king, & stoode before him. 17 And the one woman sayde: Oh my lorde, I and this woman dwell in one house, and I was deliuered of a childe, with her in the house: 18 And the thirde day after that I was deliuered, she was deliuered also: and we were together, & no straunger with vs in the house, saue we two. 19 And this wiues childe died in the night, for she smothered it. 20 And she rose at midnight and toke my sonne from my syde while thyne handmayde slept, and layde it in her bosome, and put her dead childe in my bosome. 21 And when I rose in the mornyng to geue my chylde sucke, beholde it was dead: But when I had loked vpon it in the morning, beholde, it was not my sonne which I dyd beare. 22 And the other woman sayd: It is not so, but my sonne liueth, and thy sonne is dead. And she sayde againe: No, but thy sonne is dead, and my sonne is alyue. And thus they pleaded before the king. 23 Then sayde the king: The one sayth, this that is alyue is my sonne, and the dead is thyne: And the other sayth, nay: but thy sonne is the dead, and the liuing childe is myne. 24 And the king sayde: Bring me a sworde. And they brought out a sworde before the king. 25 And the king sayde: Deuide the liuing child in two, and geue the one halfe to the one, aud the other to the other. 26 Then spake the woman whose the liuing childe was, vnto the king (for her bowelles yerned vpon her sonne) and sayde: I besech thee my lorde geue her the liuing childe, and in no wyse slay it: But the other sayde, Let it be neither myne nor thyne, but deuide it. 27 Then the king aunswered and sayde: Geue her the liuing childe, and slay it not, for she is the mother therof. 28 And all they of Israel hearde of the iudgement which the king had iudged, and feared the king: for they sawe that the wysdome of God was in him to do iustice.
  • Eph 5:1 : 1 Be ye therefore folowers of God, as deare chyldren:
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure deuotion and vndefyled before God and the father, is this: To visite the fatherlesse and widdowes in their aduersitie, and to kepe hymselfe vnspotted of the worlde.

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    11When the eare heard me, it blessed me: & when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me:

    12For I deliuered the poore when he cryed, and the fatherlesse, and hym that had none to helpe hym.

    13The blessing of him that was redy to perishe came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce.

    14And why? I put vpon me righteousnesse, which couered me as a garment, and equitie was my crowne.

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    17I brake the iawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the spoyle out of his teeth.

  • Jer 22:16
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    16Yea, when he helped the oppressed and poore to their right, then prospered he well: From whence came this, but onlye because he knewe me, saith the Lorde?

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  • Job 31:16-19
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    16If I denied the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the wydow to wayte in vayne:

    17If I haue eaten my morsell alone, that ye fatherlesse hath not eaten therof:

    18(For from my youth it hath growen vp with me as with a father, and from my mothers wombe I haue ben guyde to the wydowe)

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    21If I haue lift vp mine hand against the fatherlesse, when I sawe that I might helpe him in the gate:

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    8Be thou an aduocate for the dumbe, to speake in the cause of all such as be succourlesse in this transitorie worlde.

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    3Iudge ryght vnto the poore and fatherlesse: dispatch according to iustice suche as be afflicted and in necessitie.

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    12I am sure that God wyll dispatche the cause of the afflicted: and he wyll geue iudgement for the needy.

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    13The poore and the lender meete together, and the Lorde lyghteneth both their eyes.

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