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Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, And you undermine your friend.
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“For inquire, please, of the former age, And consider the things discovered by their fathers;
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Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, Much older than your father.
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What wise men have told, Not hiding anything received from their fathers,
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If I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ And to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister,’
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You have sent widows away empty, And the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
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They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; They take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
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“Some snatch the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge from the poor.
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Because I delivered the poor who cried out, The fatherless and the one who had no helper.
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I was a father to the poor, And I searched out the case that I did not know.
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Job’s Wealth Now Poverty
“But now they mock at me, men younger than I, Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.
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Or eaten my morsel by myself, So that the fatherless could not eat of it
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(But from my youth I reared him as 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, When I saw I had 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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In all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
