Text -- Job 31:18 (NET)

31:18 but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow!

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 31:18

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.