Leeser(i)
13 If ever I cast aside the justice due to my man-servant and my maid-servant, when they contended with me:
14 What then could I do when God should rise up? and when he should investigate, what could I answer him?
15 Did not he that made me make him born or a woman? and did not the same one fashion us in the womb?
16 If ever I denied the wish of the indigent, or ever allowed the eyes of the widow to fall in vain hopes;
17 Or if ever I ate my bread by myself alone, and the fatherless did not eat thereof;
18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as though we were of one father, and I have guided her as though she was sprung from my mother’s womb;)
19 If ever I saw any one perishing for want of clothing, or the needy without covering:
20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he have not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
21 If I have swung my hand against the fatherless, because I saw in the gate those that would help me:
22 Then may my shoulder fall from my shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the channel-bone;
23 For dreaded by me was the calamitous punishment of God, and against his highness I can accomplish nothing.
24 If I have made gold my confidence, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my trust:
25 If ever I rejoiced because my wealth was abundant, and because my hand had gotten much;