JPS_ASV_Byz(i)
13 If I did despise the cause of my man-servant, or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me -
14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when He remembereth, what shall I answer Him?
15 Did not He that made me in the womb make him? And did not One fashion us in the womb?
16 If I have withheld aught that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof -
18 Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have been her guide from my mother's womb.
19 If I have seen any wanderer in want of clothing, or that the needy had no 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, because I saw my help in the gate;
22 Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
23 For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of His majesty I could do nothing.
24 If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold: 'Thou art my confidence';
25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;