Job 31:13

King James Version 1611 (Original)

If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, 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 be surely 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, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
  • Lev 25:43 : 43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
  • Lev 25:46 : 46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
  • Deut 15:12-15 : 12 And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an 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 sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: 14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD 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 the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.
  • Deut 24:14-15 : 14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: 15 At 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 the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
  • Jer 34:14-17 : 14 At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he 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 right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name: 16 But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids. 17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
  • Eph 6:9 : 9 And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.
  • Col 4:1 : 1 Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

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    9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;

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

    11 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

    12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

  • 14 What 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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    38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

    39 If 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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    28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

    29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

    30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

  • 10 Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.

  • Job 31:19-21
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    19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

    20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

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

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

    17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

  • 5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

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    26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

    27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

  • 19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

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

  • 15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

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

    16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

  • 7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

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    15 Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing 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 handmaid.

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

  • 18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

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

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

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

    4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)

  • 25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

  • 12 For 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:

  • 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

  • 34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

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

  • 7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

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

  • 11 But afterward 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.

  • 32 If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

  • 9 He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.

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    31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

    32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.

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

  • 29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

  • 23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

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

  • 2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

  • 7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD 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.