Verse 15

Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 14:31 : 31 He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.
  • Prov 22:2 : 2 The man of wealth and the poor man come face to face: the Lord is the maker of them all.
  • Job 34:19 : 19 Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.
  • Ps 139:14-16 : 14 I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious. 15 My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.
  • Neh 5:5 : 5 But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.
  • Job 10:3 : 3 What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?
  • Job 10:8-9 : 8 Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction. 9 O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust? 10 Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese? 11 By you I was clothed with skin and flesh, and joined together with bones and muscles. 12 You have been kind to me, and your grace has been with me, and your care has kept my spirit safe.
  • Isa 58:7 : 7 Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?
  • Mal 2:10 : 10 Have we not all one father? has not one God made us? why are we, every one of us, acting falsely to his brother, putting shame on the agreement of our fathers?