12. For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
13. If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me:
14. What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
15. Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
16. If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
17. Or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
18. (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have been her guide from my mother's womb;)
19. If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
20. If his loins 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, because I saw my help in the gate: