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Job 31:18

18  (for from my youth the fatherless2 grew up with me as with a father,

and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow3),

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Job 31:18 — The New International Version (NIV)

18 but from my youth I reared them as a father would,

and from my birth I guided the widow—

Job 31:18 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father,

And I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)

Job 31:18 — New Living Translation (NLT)

18 No, from childhood I have cared for orphans like a father,

and all my life I have cared for widows.

Job 31:18 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

18 (But from my youth I reared him as a father,

And from my mother’s womb I guided the widow);

Job 31:18 — New Century Version (NCV)

18 Since I was young, I have been like a father to the orphans.

From my birth I guided the widows.

Job 31:18 — American Standard Version (ASV)

18 (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father,

And her have I guided from my mother’s womb);

Job 31:18 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

18 (For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the widow from my mother’s womb;)

Job 31:18 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

18 (From my youth the orphan grew up with me 

as though I were his father, 

and from my birth I treated the widow kindly.) 

Job 31:18 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

18 for from my youth, I raised him as his father,

and since the day I was born I guided the widow—

Job 31:18 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

18 for from my youth I reared the orphan like a father,

and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—

Job 31:18 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

18 (for from my childhood he grew up with me like a father,

and from my mother’s womb I guided her),

Job 31:18 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

18 From the time I was young, I’ve helped those widows.

I’ve raised those children as a father would.

Job 31:18 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

18 (But from my youth he grew up with me as with a father,

And from infancy I guided her),


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