Job 31:16-23

Modern English Version

¹⁶ “If I have kept the poor from their desire,
    or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
¹⁷ or have eaten my morsel by myself,
    so that the fatherless could not eat of it
¹⁸ (but from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father,
    and I have guided the widow from my mother’s womb);
¹⁹ if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing,
    or any poor without covering;
²⁰ if his body has not blessed me,
    and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,
    when I saw I had help in the gate;
²² then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade,
    and my arm be broken from the bone.
²³ For destruction from God is a terror to me,
    and because of His highness I cannot endure.