Generosity to the Poor and Vulnerable

Job 31:16-23

If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,

if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—

though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—

if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,

if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

then may my arm fall from my shoulder and be torn from its socket.

For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.