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You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.
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“For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out.
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Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.
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(what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers,
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if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
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You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
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They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)
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because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.
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I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.
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“But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
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or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
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(for from my youth the fatherless grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother's womb I guided the widow),
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if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
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“Has the rain a father, or who has begotten the drops of dew?
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And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
