Job 31:13
If I despise the cause of my manservant, || And of my handmaid, || In their contending with me,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
In Context
12For it [is] a fire, it consumes to destruction, || And takes root among all my increase,
14Then what do I do when God arises? And when He inspects, || What do I answer Him?
Cross References
Exodus 21:26And when a man strikes the eye of his manservant, or the eye of his handmaid, and has destroyed it, he sends him away as a freeman for his eye;
Leviticus 25:46and you have taken them for an inheritance for your sons after you, to inherit [for] a possession; you lay service on them for all time, but on your brothers, the sons of Israel, each with his brother—you do not rule over him with rigor.
Deuteronomy 24:14You do not oppress a hired worker, poor and needy, of your brothers or of your sojourner who is in your land within your gates;
Ephesians 6:9And the masters! Do the same things to them, letting threatening alone, having also known that your Master is in the heavens, and favor by appearance is not with Him.
Matthew Henry on Job 31:10-16
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 a 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. 13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; 14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I… Read the whole commentary →