Job 31:13

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“If I have disregarded the right of my male servants or my female servants when they disputed with me,

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 21:20-21 : 20 “If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she dies as a result of the blow, he will surely be punished. 21 However, if the injured servant survives one or two days, the owner will not be punished, for he has suffered the loss.
  • Exod 21:26-27 : 26 “If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye. 27 If he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or his female servant, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.
  • Lev 25:43 : 43 You must not rule over him harshly, but you must fear your God.
  • Lev 25:46 : 46 You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.
  • Deut 15:12-15 : 12 Release of Debt Slaves If your fellow Hebrew– whether male or female– is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you must let that servant go free. 13 If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed. 14 You must supply them generously from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress– as the LORD your God has blessed you, you must give to them. 15 Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore, I am commanding you to do this thing today.
  • Deut 24:14-15 : 14 You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages. 15 You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
  • Jer 34:14-17 : 14 “Every seven years each of you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. After they have served you for six years, you shall set them free.” But your ancestors did not obey me or pay any attention to me. 15 Recently, however, you yourselves showed a change of heart and did what is pleasing to me. You granted your fellow countrymen their freedom and you made a covenant to that effect in my presence in the house that I have claimed for my own. 16 But then you turned right around and showed that you did not honor me. Each of you took back your male and female slaves whom you had freed as they desired, and you forced them to be your slaves again. 17 So I, the LORD, say:“You have not really obeyed me and granted freedom to your neighbor and fellow countryman. Therefore, I will grant you freedom, the freedom to die in war, or by starvation or disease. I, the LORD, affirm it! I will make all the kingdoms of the earth horrified at what happens to you.
  • Eph 6:9 : 9 Masters, treat your slaves the same way, giving up the use of threats, because you know that both you and they have the same master in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.
  • Col 4:1 : 1 Masters, treat your slaves with justice and fairness, because you know that you also have a master in heaven.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 31:9-12
    4 verses
    80%

    9If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door,

    10then let my wife turn the millstone for another man, and may other men commit adultery with her.

    11For I would have committed a shameful act, an iniquity to be judged.

    12For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction, and it would uproot all my harvest.

  • Job 31:14
    79%

    14then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?

  • Job 31:38-39
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    74%

    38Job’s Final Solemn Oath“If my land cried out against me and all its furrows wept together,

    39if I have eaten its produce without paying, or caused the death of its owners,

  • Job 31:28-30
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    73%

    28then this also would be iniquity to be judged, for I would have been false to God above.

    29If I have rejoiced over the misfortune of my enemy or exulted because calamity found him–

    30I have not even permitted my mouth to sin by asking for his life through a curse–

  • Prov 30:10
    72%

    10Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you are found guilty.

  • Job 31:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without a coat,

    20whose heart did not bless me as he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep,

    21if I have raised my hand to vote against the orphan, when I saw my support in the court,

  • Job 31:16-17
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    72%

    16If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

    17If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans–

  • Job 19:5
    71%

    5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,

  • Exod 21:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26“If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

    27If he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or his female servant, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.

  • Job 13:19
    71%

    19Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

  • Exod 21:20
    71%

    20“If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she dies as a result of the blow, he will surely be punished.

  • Ps 73:15
    71%

    15If I had publicized these thoughts, I would have betrayed your people.

  • Job 19:15-16
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    71%

    15My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.

    16I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth.

  • Exod 21:7
    70%

    7“If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.

  • 2 Sam 14:15-16
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    15I have now come to speak with my lord the king about this matter, because the people have made me fearful. But your servant said,‘I will speak to the king! Perhaps the king will do what his female servant asks.

    16Yes! The king may listen and deliver his female servant from the hand of the man who seeks to remove both me and my son from the inheritance God has given us!’

  • Job 19:18
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    18Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me.

  • Job 10:2-3
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    2I will say to God,‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’

    3Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?

  • Ps 7:3-4
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    3O LORD my God, if I have done what they say, or am guilty of unjust actions,

    4or have wronged my ally, or helped his lawless enemy,

  • Job 31:25
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    25if I have rejoiced because of the extent of my wealth, or because of the great wealth my hand had gained,

  • Ps 55:12
    69%

    12Indeed, it is not an enemy who insults me, or else I could bear it; it is not one who hates me who arrogantly taunts me, or else I could hide from him.

  • Job 21:4
    69%

    4Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?

  • Job 31:34
    69%

    34because I was terrified of the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I remained silent and would not go outdoors–

  • Prov 30:23
    69%

    23under an unloved woman who becomes married, and under a female servant who dispossesses her mistress.

  • Job 23:7
    69%

    7There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • Exod 21:5
    69%

    5But if the servant should declare,‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’

  • Jer 34:11
    69%

    11But later they had changed their minds. They had taken back their male and female slaves that they had freed and forced them to be slaves again.

  • Exod 21:32
    69%

    32If the ox gores a male servant or a female servant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver, and the ox must be stoned.

  • Prov 12:9
    69%

    9Better is a person of humble standing who works for himself, than one who pretends to be somebody important yet has no food.

  • Job 9:31-32
    2 verses
    69%

    31then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.

    32For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.

  • Job 30:1
    68%

    1Job’s Present Misery“But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.

  • Job 9:29
    68%

    29If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?

  • Job 31:23
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    23For the calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I was powerless.

  • Lev 25:42
    68%

    42Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.

  • Job 31:2
    68%

    2What then would be one’s lot from God above, one’s heritage from the Almighty on high?

  • Job 42:7
    68%

    7After the LORD had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite,“My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.