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Job 31:21 Meaning & Commentary – Lifting Up My Hand

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

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If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

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If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

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For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;

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Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

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If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

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Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

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What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

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If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

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For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.