“"If I have withheld anything that the poor desired." In order that it might not appear that by humanely treating his servants, he did not practice a real liberality but only took care of his property, he says that he tended the hand of mercy and benevolence to strangers as well. In a different sense, one who does not…”
Julian of Eclanum, 5th c. — EXPOSITION ON THE BOOK OF JOB 31:16
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16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
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14What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
— Job 31:16 —
17Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
18(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)