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Job 31:21

โ€œIf I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:โ€

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19

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

20

If his loins have not blessed me, and [if] he were [not] warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

21

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

22

[Then] let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

23

For destruction [from] God [was] a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

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