Job 31:12-23

1. 12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

2. 13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

3. 14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

4. 15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

5. 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

6. 17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

7. 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;)

8. 19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

9. 20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

10. 21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

11. 22 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

12. 23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

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