Job 29:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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  • Prov 29:7 : 7 The righteous knoweth the cause of the poore: but the wicked regardeth not knowledge.
  • Esth 2:7 : 7 And he nourished Hadassah, that is Ester, his vncles daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, & the mayde was fayre, and beautifull to looke on: & after the death of her father, and her mother, Mordecai tooke her for his own daughter
  • Job 31:18 : 18 (For from my youth hee hath growen vp with me as with a father, and from my mothers wombe I haue bene a guide vnto her)
  • Ps 68:5 : 5 He is a Father of the fatherlesse, & a Iudge of the widowes, euen God in his holy habitation.
  • Prov 25:2 : 2 The glorie of God is to conceale a thing secret: but the Kings honour is to search out a thing.
  • Job 24:4 : 4 They make the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hide themselues together.
  • Exod 18:26 : 26 And they iudged the people at all seasons, but they brought the hard causes vnto Moses: for they iudged all small matters themselues.
  • Deut 13:14 : 14 Then thou shalt seeke, and make searche and enquire diligently: and if it be true, and the thing certaine, that such abomination is wrought among you,
  • Deut 17:8-9 : 8 If there rise a matter too harde for thee in iudgemet betweene blood & blood, betweene plea and plea, betweene plague and plague, in the matters of controuersie within thy gates, then shalt thou arise, and goe vp vnto the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse, 9 And thou shalt come vnto the Priestes of the Leuites, and vnto the iudge that shall be in those daies, and aske, and they shall shewe thee the sentence of iudgement, 10 And thou shalt do according to that thing which they of that place (which the Lorde hath chosen) shewe thee, and thou shalt obserue to doe according to all that they informe thee.
  • 1 Kgs 3:16-28 : 16 Then came two harlots vnto the King, and stoode before him. 17 And the one woman sayd, 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 third day after that I was deliuered, this woman was deliuered also: and we were in the house together: no stranger was with vs in the house, saue we twaine. 19 And this womans sonne died in the night: for she ouerlay him. 20 And she rose at midnight, and tooke my sonne from my side, while thine handmaide slept, and layde him in her bosome, and layde her dead sonne in my bosome. 21 And when I rose in the morning to giue my sonne sucke, beholde, he was dead: and when I had wel considered him in the morning, beholde, it was not my sonne, whom I had borne. 22 Then the other woman sayd, Nay, but my sonne liueth, and thy sonne is dead. Againe she sayde, No, but thy sonne is dead, and mine aliue: thus they spake before the King. 23 Then sayde the King, She sayth, This that liueth is my sonne, and the dead is thy sonne: and the other sayth, Nay, but the dead is thy sonne, and the liuing is my sonne. 24 Then the King said, Bring me a sworde: & they brought out a sworde before the King. 25 And the King sayde, Deuide ye the liuing child in twaine, & giue the one halfe to the one, and the other halfe to the other. 26 Then spake the woman, whose the liuing child was, vnto the King, for her compassion was kindled toward her sonne, and she sayde, Oh my lorde, giue her the liuing childe, & slay him not: but the other sayde, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but deuide it. 27 Then the King answered, and sayde, Giue her the liuing childe, and slay him not: this is his mother. 28 And all Israel heard the iudgement, which the King had iudged, and they feared the King: for they sawe that the wisedome of God was in him to doe iustice.
  • Eph 5:1 : 1 Bee yee therefore followers of God, as deare children,
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure religion & vndefiled before God, euen the Father, is this, to visite the fatherlesse, and widdowes in their aduersitie, and to keepe himselfe vnspotted of the world.

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    11 And when the eare heard me, it blessed me: and when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me.

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

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

    14 I put on iustice, and it couered me: my iudgement was as a robe, and a crowne.

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    17 I brake also the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the praye out of his teeth.

  • Jer 22:16
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    16 When he iudged the cause of the afflicted and the poore, he prospered: was not this because he knewe me, saith the Lorde?

  • Job 30:25-26
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    25 Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble? was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore?

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  • Job 31:16-19
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    16 If I restrained the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the widow to faile,

    17 Or haue eaten my morsels alone, and the fatherles hath not eaten thereof,

    18 (For from my youth hee hath growen vp with me as with a father, and from my mothers wombe I haue bene a guide vnto her)

    19 If I haue seene any perish for want of clothing, or any poore without couering,

  • Job 31:21
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    21 If I haue lift vp mine hande against the fatherlesse, when I saw that I might helpe him in the gate,

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    8 Open thy mouth for the domme in the cause of all the children of destruction.

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  • Prov 29:7
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    7 The righteous knoweth the cause of the poore: but the wicked regardeth not knowledge.

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    3 Doe right to the poore and fatherlesse: doe iustice to the poore and needie.

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    3 For I was my fathers sonne, tender and deare in the sight of my mother,

  • Ps 10:14
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    14 Yet thou hast seene it: for thou beholdest mischiefe and wrong, that thou mayest take it into thine handes: the poore committeth himselfe vnto thee: for thou art the helper of the fatherlesse.

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    9 Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, & the armes of the fatherles were broken.

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    16 Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?

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    12 I know that the Lord will auenge the afflicted, and iudge the poore.

  • Prov 29:13-14
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    13 The poore and the vsurer meete together, and the Lord lighteneth both their eyes.

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    2 To keepe backe ye poore from iudgement, and to take away the iudgement of the poore of my people, that widowes may be their pray, and that they may spoyle the fatherlesse.

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    22 Because I am poore and needie, and mine heart is wounded within me.

  • Job 42:3
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    3 Who is hee that hideth counsell without knowledge? therefore haue I spoken that I vnderstood not, euen things too wonderfull for me, and which I knew not.

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    4 As I was in the dayes of my youth: when Gods prouidence was vpon my tabernacle:

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    35 For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me meate: I thirsted, and ye gaue me drinke: I was a stranger, and ye tooke me in vnto you.

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    17 Learne to doe well: seeke iudgement, relieue the oppressed: iudge the fatherlesse and defend the widowe.

  • Prov 28:11
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    11 The riche man is wise in his owne conceite: but the poore that hath vnderstanding, can trie him.

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    16 Then thought I to know this, but it was too painefull for me,

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    17 For I am not cut off in darknesse, but he hath hid the darkenesse from my face.

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    22 Though I said in mine haste, I am cast out of thy sight, yet thou heardest the voyce of my prayer, when I cryed vnto thee.

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    29 If I reioyced at his destruction that hated me, or was mooued to ioye when euill came vpon him,

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    16 Because he remembred not to shew mercie, but persecuted the afflicted and poore man, and the sorowfull hearted to slay him.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16 Hee that oppresseth the poore to increase him selfe, and giueth vnto the riche, shall surely come to pouertie.

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    14 Thus am I as a man, that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofes.

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