or withheld Bread from the hungry

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the wayside ask where'er ye go
_Where is the dwelling of the prince?_ and seek
Gain more than godlinessI know full well
Your deep contempt for one too poor to bribe
Your false allegianceand the unkind device
Ye wrongfully imagine.
Will ye teach
Knowledge to God? Doth He not wisely judge
The highest? and reserve the sons of guilt
For the destruction that awaiteth them?"
In quick rejoinderEliphaz replied
What is thy fancied goodness in the sight
Of the Almighty? Is it gain to Him
If thou art righteous? Would it add to Him
Gladness or glorythat thy ways should be
What thou call'st perfect?
Rather turn thine eyes
Upon the record of thy sinsand see
Their countless number.
Hast thou taken a pledge
From thy poor brother's hand? or reft away
The garment from the shivering? or withheld
Bread from the hungry? or the widow sent
Empty away? not given the weary soul
What it implored? nor bound the broken arm
Of the forsaken fatherless?
For this
Have snares beset thee? and a secret fear
Dismay'd thy spirit? and a rayless night
Shut over thee?
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Look to the height of heaven
Above the utmost star. Is not God there?
Think'st thou that aught can intercept His sight
Or bar His right [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]