OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 21

Job 31:21

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if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,

because I saw my help in the gate;

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Job 31:18–24

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(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father,

I have guided her from my mother’s womb);

19

if I have seen any perish for want of clothing,

or that the needy had no covering;

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if his heart hasn’t blessed me,

if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;

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if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,

because I saw my help in the gate;

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then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade,

and my arm be broken from the bone.

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For calamity from God is a terror to me.

Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.

24

“If I have made gold my hope,

and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’

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