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...
Psalm 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Ephesians 5:1 Be you therefore followers of God, as dear children;
James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction...
the cause
Exodus 18:26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Deuteronomy 13:14 Then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain...
Deuteronomy 17:8-10 If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke...
1 Kings 3:16-28 Then came there two women, that were harlots, to the king, and stood before him...
Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.
Proverbs 29:7 The righteous considers the cause of the poor: but the wicked regards not to know it.
Strong's Concordance
I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out. Topical Bible
Case Cause Didn't Investigated Needy Poor Search Searched Searching Strange StrangerResources
Job Chapter 29 Verse 16
Alphabetical: a And case did father I investigated know needy not of stranger the to took up was which
OT Poetry: Job 29:16 I was a father to the needy (Jb)