I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
Cross References
Job 4:3Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
Job 24:4They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
Proverbs 29:7The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked have no regard for such concerns.
Isaiah 22:21I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will put your authority in his hand, and he will be a father to the dwellers of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
Treasury of Scripture
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
a father
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;)
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.
Psalm 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
the cause
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 13:14
Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
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; …
