Job 31:18
(For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)
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15 Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?
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- Job 31:19-213 verses80%
19 If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;
20 If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;
21 If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;
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18 She has no one among all her children to be her guide; not one of the sons she has taken care of takes her by the hand.
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- Ps 22:9-113 verses76%
9 But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.
10 I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.
11 Be not far from me, for trouble is near; there is no one to give help.
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4 Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?
- Jer 20:17-182 verses74%
17 Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.
18 Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?
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3 Give ear to me, O family of Jacob, and all the rest of the people of Israel, who have been supported by me from their birth, and have been my care from their earliest days:
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10 When my father and my mother are turned away from me, then the Lord will be my support.
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2 What am I to say to you, O Lemuel, my oldest son? and what, O son of my body? and what, O son of my oaths?
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10 Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.
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13 My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.
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8 My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:
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12 For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.
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6 If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.
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11 I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way.
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16 Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,
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18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,
- Song 8:1-22 verses70%
1 Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on.
2 I would take you by the hand into my mother's house, and she would be my teacher. I would give you drink of spiced wine, drink of the pomegranate.
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20 My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:
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1 Give ear, O sea-lands, to me; and take note, you peoples from far: I have been marked out by the Lord from the first; when I was still in my mother's body, he had my name in mind:
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18 And three days after the birth of my child, this woman had a child: we were together, no other-person was with us in the house but we two only.
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16 Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.
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21 Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?
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15 Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.
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14 My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.
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25 Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.
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3 For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.
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16 I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
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22 Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.
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12 Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?
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12 Even though their children have come to growth I will take them away, so that not a man will be there; for their evil-doing will be complete and they will be put to shame because of it.
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20 And she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was sleeping; and she took it in her arms and put her dead child in my arms.
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30 Then I was by his side, as a master workman: and I was his delight from day to day, playing before him at all times;
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16 And Naomi took the child and put her arms round it, and she took care of it.
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9 They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.
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22 As in the day of a holy meeting you have made fears come round me on every side, and no one got away or was kept safe in the day of the Lord's wrath: those who were folded in my arms, whom I took care of, have been sent to their destruction by my hater.
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18 Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.
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3 We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
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11 Put in my care your children who have no father, and I will keep them safe; and let your widows put their faith in me.