16 If I restrained the poor of their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow [a]to fail,

17 Or have eaten my morsels alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof,

18 (For from my youth hath he grown up with me [b]as with a father, and from my mother’s womb have I been a guide unto her.)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:16 By long waiting for her request.
  2. Job 31:18 He nourished the fatherless, and maintained the widow’s cause.

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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