14. For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?
15. Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?
16. If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:
17. If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:
18. (For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb:)
19. If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:
20. If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:
21. If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:
22. Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.
23. For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was not able to bear.
24. If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence:
25. If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much.
26. If I beheld the sun when it shined, and the moon going in brightness: