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18 (even a poor man had grown up with me as if I were his father,
    and even though I had guided the widow[a]
        from the time I was born),
19 if I’ve observed someone who is about to die for lack of clothes
    or if I have no clothing to give to the poor,
20 if he hadn’t thanked me from the bottom of his heart,[b]
    if he had not been warmed by wool from my sheep,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:18 Lit. her
  2. Job 31:20 Lit. hadn’t blessed me from his loins

18 but from my youth I reared them as a father would,
    and from my birth I guided the widow(A)
19 if I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing,(B)
    or the needy(C) without garments,
20 and their hearts did not bless me(D)
    for warming them with the fleece(E) from my sheep,

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