Job 31:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ for from my youth I reared the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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;)

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ No, but from my youth [the fatherless] grew up with me as a father, and I have been [the widow's] guide from my mother's womb–

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother’s womb);

Common English Bible

¹⁸ for from my youth I raised the orphan as a father, and from my mother’s womb I led the widow);

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ (for from my infancy mercy grew with me, and it came out with me from my mother's womb;)

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb:)

Job 31:18 Cross References

2 Kings 14:9

King Jehoash of Israel sent word to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ but a wild animal of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thornbush.

Esther 2:7

He had brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his cousin, for she had neither father nor mother; the young woman was fair and beautiful, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai adopted her as his own daughter.

Job 22:9

You have sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you have crushed.

Job 29:12

because I delivered the poor who cried and the orphan who had no helper.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger.

Job 31:17

or have eaten my morsel alone and the orphan has not eaten from it—

Job 31:19

if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing or a poor person without covering,

Isaiah 58:7

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them and not to hide yourself from your own kin?