Job 31:18

(For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb :)

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:

19If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:

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Cross References

Esther 2:7And he had brought up his brother's daughter Edissa, who by another name was called Esther: now she had lost both her parents: and was exceeding fair and beautiful. And her father and mother being dead, Mardochai adopted her for his daughter.

Job 29:16I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.

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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