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Job 31:13 KJV
Job · chapter 31 · verse 13
If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;Job 31:13 · King James Version
Job 31:13 in context
11For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
12For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
13If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
14What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- maidservantʼâmâha maidservant or female slaveH519 →
- manservantʻebeda servantH5650 →
- despisemâʼaçto spurnH3988 →
- causemishpâṭproperly, a verdict pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree divine…H4941 →
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Two more instances we have here of Job's integrity: - I. That he had a very great abhorrence of the sin of adultery. As he did not wrong his own marriage bed by keeping a concubine (he did not so much as think upon a maid, v. 1), so he was careful not to offer any injury to his neighbour's marriage bed.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-15