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Job 31:11-19 New International Version Anglicized (NIVUK)

11. For that would have been wicked,a sin to be judged.

12. It is a fire that burns to Destruction; it would have uprooted my harvest.

13. ‘If I have denied justice to any of my servants,whether male or female,when they had a grievance against me,

14. what will I do when God confronts me?What will I answer when called to account?

15. Did not he who made me in the womb make them?Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?

16. ‘If I have denied the desires of the pooror let the eyes of the widow grow weary,

17. if I have kept my bread to myself,not sharing it with the fatherless –

18. but from my youth I reared them as a father would,and from my birth I guided the widow –

19. if I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing,or the needy without garments,

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