Tobit 13:4
2 For he afflicts, and he shows mercy; he leads down to Hades in the lowest regions of the earth, and he brings up from the great abyss, and there is nothing that can escape his hand. 3 Acknowledge him before the nations, O children of Israel; for he has scattered you among them. 4 He has shown you his greatness even there. Exalt him in the presence of every living being, because he is our Lord and he is our God; he is our Father and he is God forever. 5 He will afflict you for your iniquities, but he will again show mercy on all of you. He will gather you from all the nations among whom you have been scattered.
Matthew 23:9
7 and elaborate greetings in the marketplaces and to have people call them ‘Rabbi.’ 8 But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher and you are all brothers. 9 And call no one your ‘father’ on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. 10 Nor are you to be called ‘teacher,’ for you have one Teacher, the Christ. 11 The greatest among you will be your servant.
Notes and References
"... Kasper states that ancient Israel believed God has “the attitude of a father.” Marsh similarly affirms that the usage of “Father” as a divine appellation in the Tanakh “is clearly a metaphor, an image employed to express some aspect or aspects of God’s relationship with God’s people.” Moreover, Jeremiah the prophet indicates that God’s paternity with respect to Israel is symbolic or metaphorical, when he speaks of YHWH “becoming” a Father to Israel (Jeremiah 31:9 NRSV). Therefore, it seems that the paternal title for deity is a well-established metaphor in ancient Judaism: the expression appears to form part of an avowed unfamiliar identity synthesis that communicates the notion of God electing or providentially guiding Israel, the historical seed of Abraham (2 Chronicles 20:7; Isaiah 41:8). Consequently, although the communal address “our Father” is “relatively late,” (according to Vermes) the metaphor of God as Father (ab) to the Israelite nation appears to have been a prominent leitmotif in the sacred documents of early Judaism (See Tobit 13:4; Antiquities 5.93) ..."
Foster, Edgar G. Metaphor and Divine Paternity: The Concept of God's Fatherhood in the Divinae Institutiones of Lactantius (pp. 109-110) University of Glasgow , 2008