"A beggar in distress do not reject; avert not your face from the poor. From the needy turn not your eyes, give no man reason to curse you; for if in the bitterness of his soul he curse you, his Creator will hear his prayer ... deliver the oppressed from the hand of the oppressor; let not justice be repugnant to you. To the fatherless be as a father, and help their mother as a husband would; thus you will be like a son to the Most High, and he will be more tender to you than a mother." (Sirach 4: 4-6, 9-10)