12 A fire that would consume down to Abaddontill it uprooted all my crops.
13 Had I refused justice to my manservantor to my maidservant, when they had a complaint against me,
14 What then should I do when God rises up?What could I answer when he demands an account?
15 Did not he who made me in the belly make him?Did not the same One fashion us in the womb?
16 If I have denied anything that the poor desired,or allowed the eyes of the widow to languish
17 While I ate my portion alone,with no share in it for the fatherless,
18 Though like a father he has reared me from my youth,guiding me even from my mother’s womb—