Job 29:16

In 11 translations

BSB

I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

LSV

I [am] a father to the needy, || And the cause I have not known I search out.

YLT

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

DBY

I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;

DRC

I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.

GNV

I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.

JPS

I was a father to the needy; and the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

LXXE

I was the father of the helpless; and I searched out the cause which I knew not.

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Original-language editions

WLC

אָ֣ב אָ֭נֹכִֽי לָֽאֶבְיוֹנִ֑ים וְרִ֖ב לֹא־יָדַ֣עְתִּי אֶחְקְרֵֽהוּ׃

LXX-Br

Ἐγὼ ἤμην πατὴρ ἀδυνάτων, δίκην δὲ ἣν οὐκ ᾔδειν ἐξιχνίασα.

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• Proverbs 29:7The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked have no regard for such concerns.
• Psalms 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
• Job 24:4They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
• Proverbs 25:2It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.
• Esther 2:7And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had…
• Job 31:18though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—
• 1 Kings 3:16–28At that time two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. One woman said, “Please, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth while she was in the house. On the third day after I gave…
• Ephesians 5:1Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,
• Deuteronomy 17:8–10If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose. You are to go to the…
• Exodus 18:26And they judged the people at all times; they would bring the difficult cases to Moses, but any minor issue they would judge themselves.
• Deuteronomy 13:14then you must inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. And if it is established with certainty that this abomination has been committed among you,
• James 1:27Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

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