Catholic Public Domain Version
"if I have eaten my morsel of food alone, while orphans have not eaten from it; "
— Job 31:17, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;”
“Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof ”
“or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it”
“If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans–”
“If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:”
“If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;”
“Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;”
then what will I do when God rises to judge, and, when he inquires, how will I respond to him?
Is not he who created me in the womb, also he who labored to make him? And did not one and the same form me in the womb?
If I have denied the poor what they wanted and have made the eyes of the widow wait;
if I have eaten my morsel of food alone, while orphans have not eaten from it;
(for from my infancy mercy grew with me, and it came out with me from my mother’s womb;)
if I have looked down on him who was perishing because he had no clothing and the poor without any covering,
if his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;