Job 29:16

Job's Final Defense

¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. ¹⁷ And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

Poor and Needy

Job

Proverbs 29:7

The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.

Exodus 18:26

And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

Deuteronomy 13:14

Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;

Deuteronomy 17:8-10

If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;

1 Kings 3:16-28

Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.

Esther 2:7

And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

Job 24:4

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Job 31:18

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

Psalm 68:5

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

Ephesians 5:1

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.