Job 31:13

World English Bible (2000)

"If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;

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  • Exod 21:20-21 : 20 "If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished. 21 Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.
  • Exod 21:26-27 : 26 "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27 If he strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
  • Lev 25:43 : 43 You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.
  • Lev 25:46 : 46 You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever: but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.
  • Deut 15:12-15 : 12 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 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty: 14 you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. 15 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh 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 be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates: 15 in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
  • Jer 34:14-17 : 14 At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear. 15 You had now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, 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 profaned my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return; and you brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids. 17 Therefore thus says Yahweh: you have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim to you a liberty, says Yahweh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
  • Eph 6:9 : 9 You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
  • Col 4:1 : 1 Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 31:9-12
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    9 "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

    10 then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

    11 For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

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

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

  • Job 31:38-39
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    74%

    38 If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;

    39 if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

  • Job 31:28-30
    3 verses
    73%

    28 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.

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

    30 (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

  • Prov 30:10
    72%

    10 "Don't slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.

  • Job 31:19-21
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    72%

    19 if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

    20 if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;

    21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

  • Job 31:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    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 alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

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

  • Exod 21:26-27
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    71%

    26 "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

    27 If he strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

  • Job 13:19
    71%

    19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

  • Exod 21:20
    71%

    20 "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
    71%

    15 If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

  • Job 19:15-16
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    71%

    15 Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.

    16 I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.

  • Exod 21:7
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    7 "If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

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

    16 For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of 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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    18 Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

  • Job 10:2-3
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    2 I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

    3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

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

    4 if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

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

  • Ps 55:12
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    12 For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.

  • Job 21:4
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    4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

  • Job 31:34
    69%

    34 because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn't go out of the door--

  • Prov 30:23
    69%

    23 for an unloved woman when she is married; and a handmaid who is heir to her mistress.

  • Job 23:7
    69%

    7 There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

  • Exod 21:5
    69%

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

  • Jer 34:11
    69%

    11 but 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.

  • Exod 21:32
    69%

    32 If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

  • Prov 12:9
    69%

    9 Better is he who is lightly esteemed, and has a servant, than he who honors himself, and lacks bread.

  • Job 9:31-32
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    31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

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

  • Job 30:1
    68%

    1 "But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

  • Job 9:29
    68%

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

  • Job 31:23
    68%

    23 For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.

  • Lev 25:42
    68%

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

  • Job 31:2
    68%

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

  • Job 42:7
    68%

    7 It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.