Job 31:18

(For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)

In Context

17If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;

19If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;

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Cross References

Esther 2:7And he had been a father to Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his father's brother: for she had no father or mother, and she was very beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his daughter.

Job 29:16I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.

Matthew Henry on Job 31:17-24

Job's Compassion to the Poor. ( b. c. 1520.) 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; 18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) 19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; 20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; 21 If I… Read the whole commentary →

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