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13 Did I euer thinke scorne to do right vnto my seruauntes and maydens, when they had eny mater agaynst me?
14 But seinge that God will sytt in iudgment, what shall I do? And for so moch as he will nedes visett me, what answere shall I geue him?
15 He that fashioned me in my mothers wombe, made he not him also? were we not both shapena like in oure mothers bodies?
16 When the poore desired any thinge at me, haue I denied it them? Haue I caused the widdowe to stande waytinge for me in vayne?
17 Haue I eaten my porcion alone, that the fatherlesse hath had no parte with me?
18 for mercy grewe vp with me fro my youth, and compassion fro my mothers wombe.
19 Haue I sene any man perishe thorow nakednesse and want of clothinge? Or any poore man for lack of rayment,
20 whose sydes thancked me not, because he was warmed with the wolle of my shepe?
21 Dyd I euer lyfte vp my hande to hurte the fatherlesse? yee, in the gate where I sawe my selfe to be in auctorite:
22 then let myne arme fall fro my shulder, and myne arme holes be broken from the ioyntes.
23 For I haue euer feared the vengeaunce and punyshement of God, and knewe very well, that I was not able to beare hys burthen.
24 Haue I put my trust in golde? Or haue I sayde to the fynest golde of all: thou arte my confidence?
25 Haue I reioysed because my power was great, and because my hande gat so moche?