Job 31:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

If I have despised the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they contended with me;

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  • Exod 21:20-21 : 20 And if a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished. 21 However, if he continues a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.
  • Exod 21:26-27 : 26 If a man strikes the eye of his servant or the eye of his maid so that it is destroyed, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27 And if he knocks out his male servant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
  • Lev 25:43 : 43 You shall not rule over him with rigor; but shall fear your God.
  • Lev 25:46 : 46 And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen forever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, you shall not rule one over another with rigor.
  • Deut 15:12-15 : 12 And if your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. 13 And when you send him out free from you, you shall not let him go away empty. 14 You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress: of that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. 15 And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this thing today.
  • Deut 24:14-15 : 14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is of your brethren or of the strangers that are in your land within your gates: 15 You shall give him his wages on the same day, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it: lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.
  • Jer 34:14-17 : 14 At the end of seven years let every man set free his Hebrew brother, who has been sold to you; and when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you. But your fathers did not listen to me, nor incline their ear. 15 And you had now turned and done what was right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name. 16 But you turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return and brought them into subjection, to be your servants and your handmaids. 17 Therefore thus says the LORD: You have not listened to me in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, says the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
  • Eph 6:9 : 9 And, you masters, do the same things to them, refraining from threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
  • Col 4:1 : 1 Masters, give to your servants that which is just and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

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  • Job 31:9-12
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    9If my heart has been deceived by a woman, or if I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door;

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

    11For this would be a heinous crime; yes, it is an iniquity to be judged.

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

  • Job 31:14
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    14What then shall I do when God rises up? When He visits, what shall I answer Him?

  • Job 31:38-39
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    38If my land cries against me, or its furrows likewise complain;

    39If I have eaten its fruits without payment, or caused the owners to lose their life;

  • Job 31:28-30
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    73%

    28This also would be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied the God above.

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

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

  • Prov 30:10
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    10Do not accuse a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty.

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

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

    21If I have lifted my hand against the fatherless, when 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 caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

    17Or have eaten my portion alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it;

  • Job 19:5
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    5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach,

  • Exod 21:26-27
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    26If a man strikes the eye of his servant or the eye of his maid so that it is destroyed, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

    27And if he knocks out his male servant's tooth, or his maidservant'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 plead with me? for now, if I keep silent, I shall die.

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

  • Ps 73:15
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    15If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I would offend against the generation of Your children.

  • Job 19:15-16
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    15Those who dwell in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

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

  • Exod 21:7
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    7And if a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

  • 2 Sam 14:15-16
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    15Now therefore I have come to speak of this thing to my lord the king, because the people have made me afraid: and your maidservant said, I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his maidservant.

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

  • Job 19:18
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    18Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.

  • Job 10:2-3
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    2I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why You contend with me.

    3Is it good to You that You should oppress, that You should despise the work of Your hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

  • Ps 7:3-4
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    3O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there is iniquity in my hands;

    4If I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me; (yes, I have delivered him who without cause is my enemy:)

  • Job 31:25
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    25If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

  • Ps 55:12
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    12For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it. Neither was it one who hated me that exalted himself against me; then I would have hidden from him,

  • Job 21:4
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    4As for me, is my complaint to a man? And if it were, why should my spirit not be troubled?

  • Job 31:34
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    34Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, so that I kept silent and went not out of the door?

  • Prov 30:23
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    23For an unloved woman when she is married, and a maidservant who is heir to her mistress.

  • Job 23:7
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    7There the righteous might dispute with him, so I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • Exod 21:5
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    5And if the servant plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,'

  • Jer 34:11
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    11But afterward they turned and forced the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

  • Exod 21:32
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    32If the ox gores a male or female servant, he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

  • Prov 12:9
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    9He who is despised and has a servant is better than he who honors himself and lacks bread.

  • Job 9:31-32
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    31Yet You will plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.

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

  • Job 30:1
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    1But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

  • Job 9:29
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    29If I am wicked, why then do I labor in vain?

  • Job 31:23
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    23For destruction from God was a terror to me, and because of His majesty I could not endure.

  • Lev 25:42
    68%

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

  • Job 31:2
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    2For what portion of God is there from above? And what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

  • Job 42:7
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    7And it was so, after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My anger is aroused against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.