Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
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- Proverbs 29:7 The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked have no regard for such concerns.
- Psalm 68:5 A father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation.
- Esther 2:7 And 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 died, Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter.