I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.

我为穷乏人的父；素不认识的人，我查明他的案件。

我作贫穷人的父；我不认识之人的案件，我也去查明。

我作贫穷人的父；我不认识之人的案件，我也去查明。

我做穷人的父，为陌生人申冤。

我作过贫穷人的父亲，我查究过我素来不认识的人的案件。

我為窮乏人的父；素不認識的人，我查明他的案件。

我作貧窮人的父；我不認識之人的案件，我也去查明。

我作貧窮人的父；我不認識之人的案件，我也去查明。

我做窮人的父，為陌生人伸冤。

我作過貧窮人的父親，我查究過我素來不認識的人的案件。

我做了窮人的父；我查明素不認識者的案件。

為貧乏者之父、察不識者之事、

我濟困乏、猶父之慈子、疏者我為之理其事、

我為貧者之父、素不識者、我為之伸冤抑、

I was a father to the needy; I took up the case of the stranger.

I was like a father to needy people. I stood up for strangers in court.

I was a father to the poor and assisted strangers who needed help.

I was a father to the needy, and I examined the case of the stranger.

I was a father to the poor, And I investigated the case which I did not know.

I was a father to the poor, And I searched out the case that I did not know.

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

I was a father to the needy, and I examined the case of the stranger.

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

I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case of the person I did not know;

I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.

A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.

It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.

Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.

( for from my youth the fatherless grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow),

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

“ If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place that the Lord your God will choose.And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision.Then you shall do according to what they declare to you from that place that the Lord will choose. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they direct you.

They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.

Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.The one woman said,“ Oh, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house.Then on the third day after I gave birth, this woman also gave birth. And we were alone. There was no one else with us in the house; only we two were in the house.And this woman’s son died in the night, because she lay on him.And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid him at her breast, and laid her dead son at my breast.When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead. But when I looked at him closely in the morning, behold, he was not the child that I had borne.”But the other woman said,“ No, the living child is mine, and the dead child is yours.” The first said,“ No, the dead child is yours, and the living child is mine.” Thus they spoke before the king.Then the king said,“ The one says,‘ This is my son that is alive, and your son is dead’; and the other says,‘ No; but your son is dead, and my son is the living one.’”And the king said,“ Bring me a sword.” So a sword was brought before the king.And the king said,“ Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other.”Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son,“ Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means put him to death.” But the other said,“ He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him.”Then the king answered and said,“ Give the living child to the first woman, and by no means put him to death; she is his mother.”And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

And they judged the people at all times. Any hard case they brought to Moses, but any small matter they decided themselves.

then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you,