"I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out."
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And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
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;
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;
Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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.
(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.
A father I `am' to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.