Holy Scripture
Job 31:21
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“If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself uppermost in the gate. It was the custom with those of old that the elders should sit at the gate to make out by judicial trial the quarrels of persons at strife, in order that the city, in which it was befitting that they should dwell in conco…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
21If I lifted my hand against an orphan, Trusting that my strength was far superior to his:
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19And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him;
20And if the poor did not bless me, And their shoulders were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;
— Job 31:21 —
22Let then my shoulder start from the bladebone, And my arm be crushed off from the elbow.
23For the fear of the Lord constrained me, And I cannot bear up by reason of his burden.