Job 31:18
Good News Translation
All my life I have taken care of them.

New Revised Standard Version
for from my youth I reared the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow —

Contemporary English Version
Since the time I was young, I have cared for orphans and helped widows.

New American Bible
Though like a father he has reared me from my youth, guiding me even from my mother’s womb—

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Context
Job's Final Appeal
17If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof: 18(For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb:)19If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:…
Cross References
Job 22:9
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.

Job 31:17
If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:

Job 31:19
If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:

Job 31:17
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