Job 29:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

A father I `am' to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 29:7 : 7 The righteous knoweth the plea of the poor, The wicked understandeth not knowledge.
  • Esth 2:7 : 7 and he is supporting Hadassah -- she `is' Esther -- daughter of his uncle, for she hath neither father nor mother, and the young woman `is' of fair form, and of good appearance, and at the death of her father and her mother hath Mordecai taken her to him for a daughter.
  • Job 31:18 : 18 (But from my youth He grew up with me as `with' a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)
  • Ps 68:5 : 5 Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, `Is' God in His holy habitation.
  • Prov 25:2 : 2 The honour of God `is' to hide a thing, And the honour of kings to search out a matter.
  • Job 24:4 : 4 They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.
  • Exod 18:26 : 26 and they have judged the people at all times; the hard matter they bring in unto Moses, and every small matter they judge themselves.
  • Deut 13:14 : 14 and thou hast enquired, and searched, and asked diligently, and lo, truth; the thing is established; this abomination hath been done in thy midst:
  • Deut 17:8-9 : 8 `When anything is too hard for thee for judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke -- matters of strife within thy gates -- then thou hast risen, and gone up unto the place on which Jehovah thy God doth fix, 9 and hast come in unto the priests, the Levites, and unto the judge who is in those days, and hast inquired, and they have declared to thee the word of judgment, 10 and thou hast done according to the tenor of the word which they declare to thee (`they' of that place which Jehovah doth choose; and thou hast observed to do according to all that they direct thee.
  • 1 Kgs 3:16-28 : 16 then come in do two women, harlots, unto the king, and stand before him, 17 and the one woman saith, `O, my lord, I and this woman are dwelling in one house, and I bring forth with her, in the house; 18 and it cometh to pass on the third day of my bringing forth, that this woman also bringeth forth, and we `are' together, there is no stranger with us in the house, save we two, in the house. 19 And the son of this woman dieth at night, because she hath lain upon it, 20 and she riseth in the middle of the night, and taketh my son from beside me -- and thy handmaid is asleep -- and layeth it in her bosom, and her dead son she hath laid in my bosom; 21 and I rise in the morning to suckle my son, and lo, dead; and I consider concerning it in the morning, and lo, it was not my son whom I did bear.' 22 And the other woman saith, `Nay, but my son `is' the living, and thy son the dead;' and this `one' saith, `Nay, but thy son `is' the dead, and my son the living.' And they speak before the king. 23 And the king saith, `This `one' saith, This `is' my son, the living, and thy son `is' the dead; and that `one' saith, Nay, but thy son `is' the dead, and my son the living.' 24 And the king saith, `Take for me a sword;' and they bring the sword before the king, 25 and the king saith, `Cut the living child into two, and give the half to the one, and the half to the other.' 26 And the woman whose son `is' the living one saith unto the king (for her bowels yearned over her son), yea, she saith, `O, my lord, give to her the living child, and put it not at all to death;' and this `one' saith, `Let it be neither mine or thine -- cut `it'.' 27 And the king answereth and saith, `Give ye to her the living child, and put it not at all to death; she `is' its mother.' 28 And all Israel hear of the judgment that the king hath judged, and fear because of the king, for they have seen that the wisdom of God `is' in his heart, to do judgment.
  • Eph 5:1 : 1 Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 29:11-15
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    11For the ear heard, and declareth me happy, And the eye hath seen, and testifieth `to' me.

    12For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.

    13The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing.

    14Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice.

    15Eyes I have been to the blind, And feet to the lame `am' I.

  • Job 29:17
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    17And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.

  • Jer 22:16
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    16He decided the cause of the poor and needy, Then `it is' well -- is it not to know Me? An affirmation of Jehovah.

  • Job 30:25-26
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    25Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.

    26When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.

  • Job 31:16-19
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    16If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,

    17And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,

    18(But from my youth He grew up with me as `with' a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)

    19If I see `any' perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy,

  • Job 31:21
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    21If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in `him' the gate of my court,

  • Prov 31:8-9
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    73%

    8Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change.

    9Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!'

  • Prov 29:7
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    7The righteous knoweth the plea of the poor, The wicked understandeth not knowledge.

  • Ps 82:3-4
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    3Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.

    4Let the weak and needy escape, From the hand of the wicked deliver them.

  • Prov 4:3
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    3For, a son I have been to my father -- tender, And an only one before my mother.

  • Ps 10:14
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    14Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave `it', Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.

  • Job 22:9
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    9Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.

  • Job 3:16
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    16(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants -- they have not seen light.)

  • Ps 140:12
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    12I have known that Jehovah doth execute The judgment of the afflicted, The judgment of the needy.

  • Prov 29:13-14
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    69%

    13The poor and the man of frauds have met together, Jehovah is enlightening the eyes of them both.

    14a king that is judging truly the poor, His throne for ever is established.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.

  • Ps 109:22
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    22For I `am' poor and needy, And my heart hath been pierced in my midst.

  • Job 42:3
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    3`Who `is' this, hiding counsel without knowledge?' Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful for me, and I know not.

  • Job 24:9
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    9They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.

  • Job 36:15
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    15He draweth out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovereth in oppression their ear.

  • Job 29:7
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    7When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat.

  • Job 29:4
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    4As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of God upon my tent.

  • Job 19:7
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    7Lo, I cry out -- violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.

  • Eccl 7:25
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    25I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

  • Matt 25:35
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    35for I did hunger, and ye gave me to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye received me;

  • Isa 1:17
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    17Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive `for' the widow.

  • Prov 28:11
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    11A rich man is wise in his own eyes, And the intelligent poor searcheth him.

  • Eccl 9:16
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    16And I said, `Better `is' wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.' --

  • Ps 41:1
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    1To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him.

  • Ps 73:16
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    16And I think to know this, Perverseness it `is' in mine eyes,

  • Job 5:8
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    8Yet I -- I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,

  • Job 23:17
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    17For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.

  • Ps 31:22
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    22And I -- I have said in my haste, `I have been cut off from before Thine eyes,' But Thou hast heard the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee.

  • Job 31:29
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    29If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,

  • Ps 109:16
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    16Because that he hath not remembered to do kindness, And pursueth the poor man and needy, And the smitten of heart -- to slay,

  • Prov 22:16
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    16He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich -- only to want.

  • Ps 38:14
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    14Yea, I am as a man who heareth not, And in his mouth are no reproofs.

  • Job 6:27
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    27Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.

  • Gen 31:39
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    39the torn I have not brought in unto thee -- I, I repay it -- from my hand thou dost seek it; I have been deceived by day, and I have been deceived by night;