Job 29:16
King James Version (KJV)
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
American Standard Version (ASV)
I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
World English Bible (WEB)
I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.
Job 29:16 Cross References
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.
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.
