Job 31:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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;)

Job 31:18 Cross References

2 Kings 14:9

And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.

Esther 2:7

And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

Job 22:9

Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Job 29:12

Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

Job 31:17

Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

Job 31:19

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;

Isaiah 58:7

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?