Job 29:16

Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.

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Genesis 41:43
He made him ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.

2 Kings 6:21
The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, “My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?”

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Deuteronomy 13:14
then you shall inquire, investigate, and ask diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination was done among you,

Deuteronomy 17:8
If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.

1 Kings 3:16
Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.

1 Kings 3:17
The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.

1 Kings 3:18
The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.

1 Kings 3:19
This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it.

1 Kings 3:20
She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

1 Kings 3:21
When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead; but when I had looked at him in the morning, behold, it was not my son whom I bore.”

1 Kings 3:22
The other woman said, “No! But the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.” The first one said, “No! But the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” They argued like this before the king.

1 Kings 3:23
Then the king said, “One says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other says, ‘No! But your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’ ”

1 Kings 3:24
The king said, “Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king.

1 Kings 3:25
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 the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”

1 Kings 3:27
Then the king answered, “Give the first woman the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.”

1 Kings 3:28
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 justice.

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Deuteronomy 16:18
You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Job 29:20
My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’

Job 29:21
“Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

Job 29:22
After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.

Job 29:23
They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

Job 29:24
I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.

Job 29:25
I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.

Amos 5:10
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

Amos 5:12
For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

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

Psalms 72:14
He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

Proverbs 24:11
Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!

Proverbs 24:12
If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

Isaiah 11:4
but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

Jeremiah 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.

Ezekiel 18:8
he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

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Job 22:6
For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 22:8
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

Job 31:13
“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,

Job 31:19
if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

Psalms 31:7
I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

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

Galatians 6:1
Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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