Generosity to the Poor and Vulnerable

Job 31:16-23

If I restrained the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the widow to faile,

Or haue eaten my morsels alone, and the fatherles hath not eaten thereof,

(For from my youth hee hath growen vp with me as with a father, and from my mothers wombe I haue bene a guide vnto her)

If I haue seene any perish for want of clothing, or any poore without couering,

If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe,

If I haue lift vp mine hande against the fatherlesse, when I saw that I might helpe him in the gate,

Let mine arme fal from my shoulder, and mine arme be broken from the bone.

For Gods punishment was fearefull vnto me, and I could not be deliuered from his highnes.