Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G Message(for from my youth I was a father to the orphan, and from my mother's womb I have cared for the widow)
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.G(for from my youth I reared the fatherless as a father, and from my mother's womb I guided the widow)
KJV
King James Version(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
BSB
Berean Standard Biblethough from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—
Footnotes
From my mother's womb' is rhetorical hyperbole — a Semitic intensifier meaning 'for as long as I can remember' or 'from the very beginning of my conscious life.' This parenthetical aside is Job's confident autobiographical testimony: his compassion was not occasional charity but the defining orientation of his entire existence. FOG renders 'reared... guided' to honour the active parental images; FOG Message uses 'was a father to' and 'cared for' to make the relational warmth immediate.