11. for that’s a crime;it’s a punishable offense;
12. indeed, it’s a fire that consumes to the underworld,uprooting all my harvest.
13. If I’ve rejected the just cause of my male or female servantwhen they contended with me,
14. what could I do when God rises;when he requires an account, what could I answer?
15. Didn’t the one who made me in the belly make them;didn’t the same one fashion us in the womb?
16. If I have denied what the poor wanted,made a widow’s eyes tired,
17. eaten my morsel alone,and not shared any with an orphan(
18. for from my youth I raised the orphan as a father,and from my mother’s womb I led the widow);
19. if I ever saw someone dying without clothes, the needy naked;
20. if they haven’t blessed me fervently,or if they weren’t warmed by the wool from my sheep;
21. if I have lifted my hand against the orphans,when I saw that I had help in the city gate—
22. may my arm fall from my shoulder,my forearm be broken at the elbow—
23. for God’s calamity is terror to me;I couldn’t endure his splendor.