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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- Proverbs 29:7 The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.
- Psalm 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
- Esther 2:7 He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.