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Job 31:18
(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);
Job 31:18 · World English Bible
Job 31:18 in other translations
(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—
(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother's womb);
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In context
15 Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?
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 alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
18 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);
19 if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
20 if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;
21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;
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