father

With vs are both the gray headed, and very aged men, much elder then thy father.

I haue said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worme, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

1611 marginal noteHeb. cried, or called.

I was a father to the poore: and the cause which I knewe not, I searched out.

(For from my youth hee was brought vp with me as with a father, and I haue guided her from my mothers wombe.)

1611 marginal noteThat is, the widow,

Hath the raine a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

And in all the land were no women found so faire as the daughters of Iob: and their father gaue them inheritance among their brethren.