“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;”
Job 31:16 (KJV) |
Job 31:16
From Job 31, in the Book of Job (Old Testament).
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What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)