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

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 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 taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; The wicked hath not understanding to know it.

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

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.

And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

( Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother’s womb);

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates; then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose;and thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days: and thou shalt inquire; and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment.And thou shalt do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show thee from that place which Jehovah shall choose; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they shall teach thee:

They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

Then there came two women that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.And the one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.And it came to pass the third day after I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also; and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.And this woman’s child died in the night, because she lay upon it.And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thy handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I did bear.And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.And the king said, Fetch me a sword. And they brought a sword 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 spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor thine; divide it.Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in the midst of thee,