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What raised him like a father?
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Rashi: The straightness of my heart taught and raised me from my youth, like a father.
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Ibn Ezra: I raised the orphan like a father.
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Malbim: I was an orphan, and Hashem fed and raised me like a father. If I will not do so to orphans, He will ask me why!
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What did he conduct from the womb?
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Ibn Ezra #1: This refers to a widow
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Ibn Ezra #2: My virtue
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Malbim: I conducted my mother, a widow, from the womb, i.e. from my youth. Hashem raised me, and also oversaw her. How could I forget His Tovos, and not do so for orphans and widows?!
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How he could do anything for a widow from birth?! He must explain like Malbim - "from the womb" means from my youth. (PF)
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Ibn Ezra: My first Perush is primary, for it connects to the verses before and after this.
