Job 31:18

(For I nourished them as a father from my youth, 1 And guided them from my mother’s womb). 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

17And if too I ate my morsel alone, 1 And did not impart of it to the orphan 1

19And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him; 1

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Cross References

Job 29:16I was the father of the helpless; 1 And I searched out the cause which I knew not. 1

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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