Catholic Public Domain Version
"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; "
— Job 31:21, Catholic Public Domain Version
“If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:”
“If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate: ”
“if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,”
“if I have raised my hand to vote against the orphan, when I saw my support in the court,”
“If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:”
“If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;”
“If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:”
(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.
If I have considered gold to be my strength, or if I have called purified gold ‘my Trust;’