18 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father,her I have guided from my mother’s womb);
19 if I have seen any perish for want of clothing,or that the needy had no covering;
20 if his heart hasn’t blessed me,if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;
21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,because I saw my help in the gate,
22 then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade,and my arm be broken from the bone.
23 For calamity from God is a terror to me.Because his majesty, I can do nothing.
24 “If I have made gold my hope,and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’