Catholic Public Domain Version
"if his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; "
— Job 31:20, Catholic Public Domain Version
“If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;”
“If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep; ”
“if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;”
“whose heart did not bless me as he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep,”
“If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:”
“If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;”
“If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;”
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;
if I have lifted up my hand over an orphan, even when it might seem to me that I have the advantage over him at the gate;
then may my shoulder fall from its joint, and may my arm, with all its bones, be broken.
For I have always feared God, like waves flowing over me, whose weight I was unable to bear.