Job 31:18 - Exposition

For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb ; i.e. I have always, so long as I can remember, protected the orphan and done my best to help the widow. It has been my habit from my earliest years so to act. The language is exaggerated; but it had, no doubt, a basis of fact to rest upon. Job was brought up in these principles.