if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,
because I saw my help in the gate;
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,
because I saw my help in the gate;
Job 31:18–24
(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father,
I have guided her from my mother’s womb);
if I have seen any perish for want of clothing,
or that the needy had no covering;
if his heart hasn’t blessed me,
if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,
because I saw my help in the gate;
then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade,
and my arm be broken from the bone.
For calamity from God is a terror to me.
Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.
“If I have made gold my hope,
and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’
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