Job 31:18

Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have been her guide from my mother's womb.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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

17Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof —

19If I have seen any wanderer in want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

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Cross References

Esther 2:7And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter; for she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was of beautiful form and fair to look on; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

Job 29:16I was a father to the needy; and the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

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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