Devine Scripture

Job 29:16

Job chapter 29 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

Context

v.15I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame.

v.16This passage

v.17And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 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 in the midst of thee,

  • James 1:27

    Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

  • Proverbs 29:7

    The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; The wicked hath not understanding to know it.

  • Psalms 68:5

    A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.

  • 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.

  • Job 24:4

    They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves.