Holy Scripture
Job 31:20
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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
20And if the poor did not bless me, And their shoulders were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;
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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;
— Job 31:20 —
21If I lifted my hand against an orphan, Trusting that my strength was far superior to his:
22Let then my shoulder start from the bladebone, And my arm be crushed off from the elbow.