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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

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16-23)

Eliphaz had particularly charged Job with unmercifulness to the poor (Job 22:6-9): Thou hast withholden bread from the hungry, stripped the naked of their clothing , and sent widows away empty . One would think he could not have been so very positive and express in his charge unless there had been some truth in it, some ground, for it; and yet it appears, by Job’s protestation, that it was utterly…

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