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Job 31:16-18
Common English Bible

The defenseless

16 If I have denied what the poor wanted,
        made a widow’s eyes tired,
17     eaten my morsel alone,
        and not shared any with an orphan
(18     for from my youth I raised the orphan as a father,
        and from my mother’s womb I led the widow);[a]

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  1. Job 31:18 Heb lacks orphan . . . widow.
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Job 31:16-18
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16 “If I have denied the desires of the poor(A)
    or let the eyes of the widow(B) grow weary,(C)
17 if I have kept my bread to myself,
    not sharing it with the fatherless(D)—
18 but from my youth I reared them as a father would,
    and from my birth I guided the widow(E)—

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