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 that I had support in the gate,
If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in him the gate of my court,
If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:
Job — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
J O B CHAP. XXXI. Job had often protested his integrity in general; here he does it in particular instances, not in a way of commendation (for he does not here proclaim his good deeds), but in his own just and necessary vindication, to clear himself from those crimes with…