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

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

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 defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

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

( no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which Yahweh chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you.

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

Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.The one woman said,“ Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it.She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.”The other woman said,“ No; but the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.” The first one said,“ No; but the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” They argued like this before the king.Then the king said,“ One says,‘ This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other says,‘ No; but your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’”The king said,“ Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king.The king said,“ Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said,“ Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said,“ He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”Then the king answered,“ Give her the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.”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 unstained by the world.

They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

then you shall inquire, investigate, and ask diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination was done among you,