Job 29:16

Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

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Genesis 41:43
And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.

2 Kings 6:21
And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?

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Deuteronomy 13:14
Then shalt thou enquire, 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
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
Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.

1 Kings 3:17
And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.

1 Kings 3:18
And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.

1 Kings 3:19
And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.

1 Kings 3:20
And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

1 Kings 3:21
And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.

1 Kings 3:22
And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.

1 Kings 3:23
Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.

1 Kings 3:24
And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.

1 Kings 3:25
And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

1 Kings 3:26
Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.

1 Kings 3:27
Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.

1 Kings 3:28
And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.

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Deuteronomy 16:18
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

Job 29:20
My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

Job 29:21
Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

Job 29:22
After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

Job 29:23
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

Job 29:24
If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

Job 29:25
I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

Amos 5:10
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

Amos 5:12
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

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Psalms 72:4
He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

Psalms 72:14
He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

Proverbs 24:11
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;

Proverbs 24:12
If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

Isaiah 11:4
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

Jeremiah 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.

Ezekiel 18:8
He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,

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Job 22:6
For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 22:8
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

Job 31:13
If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

Job 31:19
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

Psalms 31:7
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

Matthew 5:7
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Galatians 6:1
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

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.

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