Holy Scripture
Job 31:16
A church father on this verse
“"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…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
16But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, And I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail.
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In context
14What then shall I do if the Lord should try me? And if also he should at all visit me, can I make an answer?
15Were not they too formed as I also was formed in the womb? Yea, we were formed in the same womb.
— Job 31:16 —
17And if too I ate my morsel alone, And did not impart of it to the orphan
18(For I nourished them as a father from my youth, And guided them from my mother’s womb).