11. For that would be a shameful act, an iniquity to be judged.
12. For it is a fire that devours to destruction, and uproots all my harvest.
13. “If I have denied justice to my male or female servant when they disputed with me,
14. then what could I do when God rises up; when He visits, how will I answer Him?
15. Did not He who made me in the womb, make him? Did not the same one form us in the womb?
16. “If I withheld the desires of the poor or let the eyes of the widow to fail,
17. if I ate my morsel of bread myself, without letting an orphan eat of it
18. (but from my youth I reared him as a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided her),
19. if I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing or the needy without a covering,
20. if his heart did not bless me as he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep,