Cross references
Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy,
and I took up the case of the stranger.
Job 29:16 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 29:7 (7 votes) and Psalm 68:5 (4 votes). 50 other verses point back to it. It links with 20 other books, from Genesis 39 to James 1.
Which verses does Job 29:16 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Proverbs 29:77 votes
The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked have no regard for such concerns.
- Psalm 68:54 votes
A father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation.
- Esther 2:73 votes
And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter.
- Job 24:43 votes
They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
- Job 31:183 votes
though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—
- Proverbs 25:23 votes
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.
- Exodus 18:262 votes
And they judged the people at all times; they would bring the difficult cases to Moses, but any minor issue they would judge themselves.
- Deuteronomy 13:142 votes
then you must inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. And if it is established with certainty that this abomination has been committed among you,
- Deuteronomy 17:8–102 votes
If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose. You are to go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who presides at that time. Inquire of them, and they will give you a verdict in the case. …
- 1 Kings 3:16–282 votes
At that time two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. One woman said, “Please, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth while she was in the house. …
- Ephesians 5:12 votes
- James 1:271 vote
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Which verses point to Job 29:16?
The 10 strongest of 50.