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16 “If I have withheld the desire of the poor from them,
or[a] I have caused the widow’s eyes to fail,
17 or I have eaten my morsel alone,[b]
and the orphan has not eaten from it
18 (for from my childhood he[c] grew up with[d] me like a father,
and from my mother’s womb I guided her[e]),

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:16 Hebrew “and”
  2. Job 31:17 Literally “to alone me”
  3. Job 31:18 Probably referring to “the orphan”
  4. Job 31:18 Literally “reared”
  5. Job 31:18 Probably referring to “the widow”