Holy Scripture
Job 31:19
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“If I despised any passing by, because he had no covering, and a poor man without clothing, if his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep. Because he did not despise the poor, he displayed the virtue of humility; and because he covered him, of pitifulness. For these two virtues…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
19And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him;
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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).
— Job 31:19 —
20And if the poor did not bless me, And their shoulders were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;
21If I lifted my hand against an orphan, Trusting that my strength was far superior to his: