A moment in scripture
Job 31:21
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If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
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The surrounding passage
- Job 31:19
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
- Job 31:20
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
- Job 31:22
Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
- Job 31:23
For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.