Job 29:16

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What does Job 29:16 mean?

Job 29:16 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Job 29:16

• Proverbs 29:7

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

• Psalms 68:5

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

• 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.

• Proverbs 25:2

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

• 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;)

• 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 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; And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the Lord shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:

• Ephesians 5:1

  Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

• 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;

• 1 Kings 3:16-28

  Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him. 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. 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. And this woman’s child died in the night; because she overlaid it. …

• 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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Context

• Job 29:15

  I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

• Job 29:16

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

• Job 29:17

  And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

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