Job 31:13-23

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹³ ‘If I have rejected the cause of my male or female slaves,
    when they brought a complaint against me;
¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up?
    When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?
¹⁵ Did not he who made me in the womb make them?
    And did not one fashion us in the womb?

¹⁶ ‘If I have withheld anything that the poor desired,
    or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
¹⁷ or have eaten my morsel alone,
    and the orphan has not eaten from it—
¹⁸ for from my youth I reared the orphan^[a] like a father,
    and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow^[b]—
¹⁹ if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing,
    or a poor person without covering,
²⁰ whose loins have not blessed me,
    and who was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
²¹ if I have raised my hand against the orphan,
    because I saw I had supporters at the gate;
²² then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder,
    and let my arm be broken from its socket.
²³ For I was in terror of calamity from God,
    and I could not have faced his majesty.