Job 31:16-23

American Standard Version

¹⁶ If I have withheld ^[a]the poor from their desire,
Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
¹⁷ Or have eaten my morsel alone,
And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof
¹⁸ (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father,
And her have I guided from my mother’s womb);
¹⁹ If I have seen any perish for want of clothing,
Or that the needy had no covering;
²⁰ If his loins have not blessed me,
And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
²¹ If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,
Because I saw my help in the gate:
²² Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade,
And mine arm be broken from the bone.
²³ For calamity from God is a terror to me,
And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.