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Job 31:18

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31:18 but from my youth I raised the orphan 1  like a father,

and from my mother’s womb 2 

I guided the widow! 3 

Job 42:15

Context
42:15 Nowhere in all the land could women be found who were as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance alongside their brothers.

1 tn Heb “he grew up with me.” Several commentators have decided to change the pronoun to “I,” and make it causative.

2 tn The expression “from my mother’s womb” is obviously hyperbolic. It is a way of saying “all his life.”

3 tn Heb “I guided her,” referring to the widow mentioned in v. 16.



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