Job 31:16-23

Common English Bible

¹⁶ If I have denied what the poor wanted,
        made a widow’s eyes tired,
¹⁷     eaten my morsel alone,
        and not shared any with an orphan
(¹⁸     for from my youth I raised the orphan as a father,
        and from my mother’s womb I led the widow);^[a]
19     if I ever saw someone dying without clothes, the needy naked;
²⁰     if they haven’t blessed me fervently,^[b]
        or if they weren’t warmed by the wool from my sheep;
²¹     if I have lifted my hand against the orphans,
        when I saw that I had help in the city gate—
²²     may my arm fall from my shoulder,
        my forearm be broken at the elbow—
²³     for God’s calamity is terror to me;
        I couldn’t endure his splendor.