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Rh :And would root out all mine increase.
 * If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant,
 * When they contended with me;
 * What then shall I do when God riseth up?
 * And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
 * Did not he that made me in the womb make him?
 * And did not one fashion us in the womb?
 * If I have withheld the poor from their desire,
 * Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
 * Or have eaten my morsel myself alone,
 * And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
 * (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father,
 * And I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
 * If I have seen any perish for want of clothing,
 * Or any poor without covering;
 * If his loins have not blessed me,
 * And if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
 * If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,
 * When I saw my help in the gate:
 * Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade,
 * And mine arm be broken from the bone.
 * For destruction from God was a terror to me,
 * And by reason of his highness I could not endure
 * If I have made gold my hope,