Job 6:27–30

³And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

²⁷Pure 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.

⁹Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

³They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

⁹They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

³And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

¹⁰Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

¹⁵He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

²²¶ Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

²³If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

²⁴And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

⁷In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

²⁰Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

²²Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

¹²Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

¹⁷Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

²¹If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

⁵And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

¹⁰Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

¹¹For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.

⁶They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

³Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

⁴But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

⁴My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

³My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.

³Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

⁴For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.

¹⁰But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

¹⁰But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

⁴My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

⁵God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

⁶My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

⁵For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

⁶Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

¹⁸Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

¹¹Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?

³For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.

⁶Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

¹⁴But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

⁸Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,

⁹I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.

¹⁰Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,

¹¹He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.

¹²Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.

³Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

⁴Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

⁵I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

⁶Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.