Holy Scripture
Job 31:18
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“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…”
Source: Septuagint
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18(For I nourished them as a father from my youth, And guided them from my mother’s womb).
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16But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, And I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail.
17And if too I ate my morsel alone, And did not impart of it to the orphan
— Job 31:18 —
19And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him;
20And if the poor did not bless me, And their shoulders were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;