Job 31:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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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Afflictions and Adversities Alms Beggars Conscience Conscientiousness Family Fatherless Gleaning

Commentary

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 f…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

13-23. Job affirms his freedom from unfairness towards his servants, from harshness and oppression towards the needy. despise the cause--refused to do them justice.