Holy Scripture
Job 31:17
A church father on this verse
“Or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof. That is to say, reckoning that he prejudiced his pitifulness, if he ate alone what the Lord of all created in common. Which same fellowship of intercourse should be carried on within the domestic walls with those persons, by whom the rewards of…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
17And if too I ate my morsel alone, And did not impart of it to the orphan
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15Were not they too formed as I also was formed in the womb? Yea, we were formed in the same womb.
16But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, And I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail.
— Job 31:17 —
18(For I nourished them as a father from my youth, And guided them from my mother’s womb).
19And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him;