I was a father to the poor, And I investigated the case which 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 needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.

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 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.

The righteous is concerned for the rights of the poor; The wicked does not understand such concern.

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows, Is God in His holy dwelling.

He was the guardian to Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had no father or mother. Now the young woman was beautiful of form and face, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.

( But from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And from my infancy I guided her),

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children;

“ If a case is too difficult for you to decide, between one kind of homicide or another, between one kind of lawsuit or another, and between one kind of assault or another, that are cases of dispute in your courts, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God chooses.So you shall come to the Levitical priests or the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall inquire of them and they will declare to you the verdict.Then you shall act in accordance with the terms of the verdict which they declare to you from that place which the Lord chooses; and you shall be careful to act in accordance with everything that they instruct you to do.

They push the needy aside from the road; The poor of the land have to hide themselves together.

Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.The one woman said,“ Pardon me, my lord: this woman and I live in the same house; and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house.And it happened on the third day after I gave birth, that this woman also gave birth to a child, and we were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, only the two of us in the house.Then this woman’s son died in the night, because she lay on him.So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while your servant was asleep, and she laid him at her breast, and laid her dead son at my breast.When I got up in the morning to nurse my son, behold, he was dead! But when I examined him closely in the morning, behold, he was not my son, whom I had borne!”Then the other woman said,“ No! For the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.” But the first woman said,“ No! For the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” So they spoke before the king.Then the king said,“ The one says,‘ This is my son who is living, and your son is the dead one’; and the other says,‘ No! For your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’ ”And the king said,“ Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king.And the king said,“ Cut the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other.”But the woman whose child was the living one spoke to the king, for she was deeply stirred over her son, and she said,“ Pardon me, my lord! Give her the living child, and by no means kill him!” But the other woman was saying,“ He shall be neither mine nor yours; cut him!”Then the king replied,“ Give the first woman the living child, and by no means kill him. She is his mother.”When all Israel heard about the judgment which the king had handed down, they feared the king, because they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.

Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Then they judged the people at all times; they would bring the difficult matter to Moses, but they would judge every minor matter themselves.

then you shall investigate, search out, and inquire thoroughly. And if it is true and the matter is certain that this abomination has been committed among you,