Job 31:18

Surely, from my youth, he grew up to me, as to a father, and, from my birth, I acted as guide to her:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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, used to eat my morsel alone, so that the fatherless did not eat thereof;

19If I saw one perishing for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

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Cross References

Esther 2:7And it came to pass, that he was bringing up Hadassah, the same, was Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had neither father nor mother,—and, the maiden, was of beautiful form and pleasing appearance, and when her father and mother died, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

Job 29:16A father, was, I, to the needy, and, as for the cause which I knew not, I used to search it 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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