Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
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- Proverbs 29:7 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
- Psalm 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.