I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case of the person 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 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. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.

The righteous person cares for the legal rights of the poor; the wicked does not understand such knowledge.

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, and it is the glory of a king to search out a matter.

He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy palace.

Now he was acting as the guardian of Hadassah( that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, for neither her father nor her mother was alive. This young woman was very attractive and had a beautiful figure. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had raised her as if she were his own daughter.

but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow!

Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children

If a matter is too difficult for you to judge– bloodshed, legal claim, or assault– matters of controversy in your villages– you must leave there and go up to the place the LORD your God chooses.You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict.You must then do as they have determined at that place the LORD chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.

They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.

Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.One of the women said,“ My master, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was with me in the house.Then three days after I had my baby, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one else in the house except the two of us.This woman’s child suffocated during the night when she rolled on top of him.She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your servant was sleeping. She put him in her arms, and put her dead son in my arms.I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there he was, dead! But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby.”The other woman said,“ No! My son is alive; your son is dead!” But the first woman replied,“ No, your son is dead; my son is alive.” Each presented her case before the king.The king said,“ One says,‘ My son is alive; your son is dead,’ while the other says,‘ No, your son is dead; my son is alive.’”The king ordered,“ Get me a sword!” So they placed a sword before the king.The king then said,“ Cut the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other!”The real mother spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were aroused. She said,“ My master, give her the living child! Whatever you do, don’t kill him!” But the other woman said,“ Neither one of us will have him! Let them cut him in two!”The king responded,“ Give the first woman the living child; don’t kill him. She is the mother.”When all Israel heard about the judicial decision which the king had rendered, they respected the king, for they realized that he possessed supernatural wisdom to make judicial decisions.

Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

They judged the people under normal circumstances; the difficult cases they would bring to Moses, but every small case they would judge themselves.

You must investigate thoroughly and inquire carefully. If it is indeed true that such a disgraceful thing is being done among you,