12 For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, And would root out all my increase.
13 "If I have despised the cause of my man-servant Or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;
14 What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?
15 Didn`t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn`t 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 has not eaten of it
18 (No, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, Her have I guided from my mother`s womb);
