~ a father to the ~ 18_JOB_29_16  I  [was] a father to the poor, and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out. #, 23_ISA_22_21  And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand, and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. #,