| Job 31:18
| (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb:)
| Womb. I was of a compassionate disposition, with which I always corresponded. (St. Gregory) --- Hebrew, "from my youth, pity (ceab, which Protestants translate "as with a father." Haydock) grew up with me; and from my birth I have preserved it!" (Calmet) --- Protestants, "From my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her (the widow, margin) from my mother's womb." Septuagint, "I fed him as a father, Theodotion adds, and was his leader from," etc. It was my earliest delight to assist the afflicted orphan and widow. (Haydock)
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