21 If I have lifted [a]up mine hand against the fatherless, when I saw that I might help him in the gate,

22 Let mine [b]arm fall from my shoulder, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

23 For God’s punishment was [c]fearful unto me, and I could not be delivered from his Highness.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:21 To oppress him and to do him injury.
  2. Job 31:22 Let me rot in pieces.
  3. Job 31:23 I refrained not from sinning for fear of men, but because I feared God.

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