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Job 31:16

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

Job 31:17

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

Job 31:18

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

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 31:21

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

Job 31:22

Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.