Job 31:15–23

¹⁵Did not He who made me in the womb also make them?

Did not the same One form us in the womb?

¹⁶If I have denied the desires of the poor

or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,

¹⁷if I have eaten my morsel alone,

not sharing it with the fatherless —

¹⁸though from my youth I reared him as would a father,

and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow —

¹⁹if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing,

or a needy man without a cloak,

²⁰if his heart has not blessed me^b

for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,

²¹if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless

because I saw that I had support in the gate,

²²then may my arm fall from my shoulder

and be torn from its socket.

²³For calamity from God terrifies me,

and His splendor I cannot overpower.