“For from my infancy compassion grew up with me, and from my mother's womb it came forth with me. For though commiseration was a thing at his own command, that it should gain growth with himself, yet it is plain that it was not a thing at his own command that it should 'come forth from the womb along with himself.' The…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXI
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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;)
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16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
17Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
— Job 31:18 —
19If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
20If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;