Job 31:16-23

21st Century King James Version

¹⁶ “If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

¹⁷ or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof

¹⁸ (for from my youth he was brought up with me as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb);

¹⁹ if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

²⁰ if his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate”

²² then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

²³ For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of His highness I could not endure.