16 If I restrained the poor of their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow [a]to fail,

17 Or have eaten my morsels alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof,

18 (For from my youth hath he grown up with me [b]as with a father, and from my mother’s womb have I been a guide unto her.)

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

20 If his loins have not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheep,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:16 By long waiting for her request.
  2. Job 31:18 He nourished the fatherless, and maintained the widow’s cause.

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