12. For it is a fire that consumes unto hell and would root out all my increase.
13. If I had despised the right of my manslave or of my maidslave, when they contended with me;
14. what then would I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what would I answer him?
15. Did not he that made me in the belly also make him? And did not the same one fashion us in the womb?
16. If I have disturbed the desire of the poor or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
17. or have eaten my morsel alone and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;