Job 31:18
(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)
King James Version
In Context
17Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
19If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
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 maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Job 29:16I was a father to the poor: and the cause which 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 →