11. For I would have committed a shameful act,an iniquity to be judged.
12. For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction,and it would uproot all my harvest.
13. “If I have disregarded the right of my male servants or my female servantswhen they disputed with me,
14. then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment;when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?
15. Did not the one who made me in the womb make them?Did not the same one form us in the womb?
16. If I have refused to give the poor what they desired,or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
17. If I ate my morsel of bread myself,and did not share any of it with orphans –
18. but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father,and from my mother’s wombI guided the widow!
19. If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing,or a poor man without a coat,