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Job 31:14 KJV

Job · chapter 31 · verse 14

What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?Job 31:14 · King James Version

Job 31:14 in context

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?

16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

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Commentary

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

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