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16 “If I have withheld anything that the poor desired,
    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 (for from his youth I reared him as a father,
    and from his mother’s womb I guided him[a]);

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  1. Job 31:18 Cn: Heb for from my youth he grew up to me as a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided her

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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