Job 31:13

American Standard Version (1901)

If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;

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  • Exod 21:20-21 : 20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall surely be punished. 21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
  • Exod 21:26-27 : 26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroy it; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27 And if he smite out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
  • Lev 25:43 : 43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor, but shalt fear thy God.
  • Lev 25:46 : 46 And ye shall make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them shall ye take your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.
  • Deut 15:12-15 : 12 If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. 13 And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty: 14 thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress; as Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. 15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to-day.
  • Deut 24:14-15 : 14 Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates: 15 in his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it be sin unto thee.
  • Jer 34:14-17 : 14 At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother that is a Hebrew, that hath been sold unto thee, and hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear. 15 And ye were now turned, and had done that which is right in mine eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name: 16 but ye turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had let go free at their pleasure, to return; and ye brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids. 17 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: ye have not hearkened unto me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim unto you a liberty, saith Jehovah, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth.
  • Eph 6:9 : 9 And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, and forbear threatening: knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no respect of persons with him.
  • Col 4:1 : 1 Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

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    9If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

    10Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.

    11For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

    12For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.

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    14What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

  • Job 31:38-39
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    38If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together;

    39If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

  • Job 31:28-30
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    28This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above.

    29If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;

    30(Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);

  • Prov 30:10
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    10Slander not a servant unto his master, Lest he curse thee, and thou be held guilty.

  • Job 31:19-21
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    19If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;

    20If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

    21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:

  • Job 31:16-17
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    16If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

    17Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof

  • Job 19:5
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    5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

  • Exod 21:26-27
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    26And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroy it; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

    27And if he smite out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

  • Job 13:19
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    19Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.

  • Exod 21:20
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    20And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall surely be punished.

  • Ps 73:15
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    15If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.

  • Job 19:15-16
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    15They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

    16I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, [Though] I entreat him with my mouth.

  • Exod 21:7
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    7And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.

  • 2 Sam 14:15-16
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    15Now therefore seeing that I am come to speak this word unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

    16For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

  • Job 19:18
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    18Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.

  • Job 10:2-3
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    2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; Show me wherefore thou contendest with me.

    3Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, That thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, And shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

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    3O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; If there be iniquity in my hands;

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    25If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much;

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    12For it was not an enemy that reproached me; Then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; Then I would have hid myself from him:

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    4As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

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    34Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door--

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    23For an odious woman when she is married; And a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

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    7There the upright might reason with him; So should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

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    5But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

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    11but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

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    32If the ox gore a man-servant or a maid-servant, there shall be given unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

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    9Better is he that is lightly esteemed, and hath a servant, Than he that honoreth himself, and lacketh bread.

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    31Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.

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    1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

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    29I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?

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    23For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.

  • Lev 25:42
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    42For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.

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    2For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high?

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    7And it was so, that, after Jehovah had spoken these words unto Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.