Job 29:16

Job's Final Defense

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“I was eyes to the blind
And I was feet to the lame.
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“I was a father to the needy;
I investigated the case I did not know [and assured justice].
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“And I smashed the jaws of the wicked
And snatched the prey from his teeth.

Poor and Needy

Job

Proverbs 29:7

The righteous man cares for the rights of the poor,
But the wicked man has no interest in such knowledge.

Exodus 18:26

And they judged the people at all times; they would bring the difficult cases to Moses, but every minor dispute they judged and decided themselves.

Deuteronomy 13:14

then you shall investigate and search out [witnesses] and ask thorough questions. If it is true and the matter is established that this loathsome thing has been done among you,

Deuteronomy 17:8-10

“If any case is too difficult for you to judge—between one kind of homicide and another, between one kind of lawsuit and another, between one kind of assault and another, being controversial issues in your courts—then you shall arise and go to the place which the Lord your God chooses.

1 Kings 3:16-28

Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

Esther 2:7

He was the guardian of Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had no father or mother. The young woman was beautiful of form and face; and when her father and mother died, Mordecai took her in as his own daughter.

Job 24:4

“They crowd the needy off the road;
The poor of the land all hide themselves.

Job 31:18

(But from my youth the orphan grew up with me as with a father,
And from my mother’s womb I have been the widow’s guide),

Psalm 68:5

A father of the fatherless and a judge and protector of the widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter,
But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

Ephesians 5:1

Therefore become imitators of God [copy Him and follow His example], as well-beloved children [imitate their father];

James 1:27

Pure and unblemished religion [as it is expressed in outward acts] in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit and look after the fatherless and the widows in their distress, and to keep oneself uncontaminated by the [secular] world.