Rotherham(i)
13 If I refused the right of my servant, or my handmaid, when they contended with me,
14 What then could I have done when GOD rose up? And, when he visited, what could I have answered him?
15 Did not he who, in the womb, made me, make him? And is not he who formed us in the body one?
16 If I withheld––from pleasure––the poor, or, the eyes of the widow, I dimmed; 17 Or, used to eat my morsel alone, so that the fatherless did not eat thereof; 18 Surely, from my youth, he grew up to me, as to a father, and, from my birth, I acted as guide to her: 19 If I saw one perishing for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; 20 If his loins did not bless me, or if, with the fleece of my lambs, he did not warm himself; 21 If I shook––against the fatherless––my hand, when I saw, in the gate, his need of my help, 22 Let, my shoulder, from the shoulder–blade, fall, and, my arm, from the upper bone, be broken;
16 If I withheld––from pleasure––the poor, or, the eyes of the widow, I dimmed; 17 Or, used to eat my morsel alone, so that the fatherless did not eat thereof; 18 Surely, from my youth, he grew up to me, as to a father, and, from my birth, I acted as guide to her: 19 If I saw one perishing for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; 20 If his loins did not bless me, or if, with the fleece of my lambs, he did not warm himself; 21 If I shook––against the fatherless––my hand, when I saw, in the gate, his need of my help, 22 Let, my shoulder, from the shoulder–blade, fall, and, my arm, from the upper bone, be broken;