Job 31:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

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  • Exod 21:20-21 : 20 If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment. 21 But, at the same time, if the servant goes on living for a day or two, the master is not to get punishment, for the servant is his property.
  • Exod 21:26-27 : 26 If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye. 27 Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.
  • Lev 25:43 : 43 Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you.
  • Lev 25:46 : 46 And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.
  • Deut 15:12-15 : 12 If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free. 13 And when you make him free, do not let him go away with nothing in his hands: 14 But give him freely from your flock and from your grain and your wine: in the measure of the wealth which the Lord your God has given you, you are to give to him. 15 And keep in mind that you yourself were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: so I give you this order today.
  • Deut 24:14-15 : 14 Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land. 15 Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.
  • Jer 34:14-17 : 14 At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear. 15 And now, turning away from evil, you had done what is right in my eyes, giving a public undertaking for every man to make his neighbour free; and you had made an agreement before me in the house which is named by my name: 16 But again you have put shame on my name, and you have taken back, every one his man-servant and his servant-girl, whom you had sent away free, and you have put them under the yoke again to be your servants and servant-girls. 17 And so the Lord has said, You have not given ear to me and undertaken publicly, every man to let loose his countryman and his neighbour: see, I undertake to let loose against you the sword and disease and need of food; and I will send you wandering among all the kingdoms of the earth.
  • Eph 6:9 : 9 And, you masters, do the same things to them, not making use of violent words: in the knowledge that their Master and yours is in heaven, and he has no respect for a man's position.
  • Col 4:1 : 1 Masters, give your servants what is right and equal, conscious that you have a Master in heaven.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 31:9-12
    4 verses
    80%

    9If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;

    10Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.

    11For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:

    12It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.

  • Job 31:14
    79%

    14What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?

  • Job 31:38-39
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    38If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;

    39If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

  • Job 31:28-30
    3 verses
    73%

    28That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.

    29If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

    30(For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)

  • Prov 30:10
    72%

    10Do not say evil of a servant to his master, or he will put a curse on you, and you will get into trouble.

  • Job 31:19-21
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    72%

    19If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;

    20If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;

    21If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

  • Job 31:16-17
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    72%

    16If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

    17If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;

  • Job 19:5
    71%

    5If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

  • Exod 21:26-27
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    71%

    26If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.

    27Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.

  • Job 13:19
    71%

    19Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.

  • Exod 21:20
    71%

    20If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.

  • Ps 73:15
    71%

    15If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.

  • Job 19:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.

    16At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him.

  • Exod 21:7
    70%

    7And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.

  • 2 Sam 14:15-16
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    70%

    15And now it is my fear of the people which has made me come to say these words to my lord the king: and your servant said, I will put my cause before the king, and it may be that he will give effect to my request.

    16For the king will give ear, and take his servant out of the power of the man whose purpose is the destruction of me and my son together from the heritage of God.

  • Job 19:18
    70%

    18Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

  • Job 10:2-3
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    70%

    2I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.

    3What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

  • Ps 7:3-4
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    3O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

    4If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;

  • Job 31:25
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    25If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;

  • Ps 55:12
    69%

    12For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

  • Job 21:4
    69%

    4As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?

  • Job 31:34
    69%

    34For fear of the great body of people, or for fear that families might make sport of me, so that I kept quiet, and did not go out of my door;

  • Prov 30:23
    69%

    23A hated woman when she is married; and a servant-girl who takes the place of her master's wife.

  • Job 23:7
    69%

    7There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

  • Exod 21:5
    69%

    5But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:

  • Jer 34:11
    69%

    11But later, they took back again the servants and the servant-girls whom they had let go free, and put them again under the yoke as servants and servant-girls.

  • Exod 21:32
    69%

    32If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned.

  • Prov 12:9
    69%

    9He who is of low position and has a servant, is better than one who has a high opinion of himself and is in need of bread.

  • Job 9:31-32
    2 verses
    69%

    31Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.

    32For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

  • Job 30:1
    68%

    1But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

  • Job 9:29
    68%

    29You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?

  • Job 31:23
    68%

    23For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.

  • Lev 25:42
    68%

    42For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.

  • Job 31:2
    68%

    2For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?

  • Job 42:7
    68%

    7And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.