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Job continues describing situations in which he would deserve God's punishment, but he knows they are not true. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hypo)

I have caused the eyes of the widow to grow dim from crying

Here "to grow dim" refers to the widow having bad eyesight due to how much she cries. AT: "I have caused a widow to cry in great sadness" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)

my morsel

"my food"

instead, from my youth the orphan grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided his mother, a widow, from my own mothers womb

Job is describing how he truly treated the orphan and widow. AT: "actually, I have taken care of orphans and widows since I was very young"