Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.

I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case of the person I did not know;

If I cry to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My Mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow!

“But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.

Nowhere in all the land could women be found who were as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance alongside their brothers.

what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors,

“For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors;

If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans –

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.

So he saves from the sword that comes from their mouth, even the poor from the hand of the powerful.

you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.

They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him;

But Job will be tested to the end, because his answers are like those of wicked men.