 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me ; what then shall I do when God riseth Up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me in the womb, make him ? and did not one fashion...  The Spectator - Page 374by Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Ronald Cedric White, Charles Howard Hopkins - Religion - 1976 - 330 pages
...thought is as old as the book of Job, for there the writer says: If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended...make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb? Job 31:13-15. This was the supreme teaching of Jesus Christ- out of which grew His universal sympathy-... | |
 | 2002 - 314 pages
..."If I did despise the cause of my manservant, or of my maidservant, when they contended with me . . . Did not He that made me in ... the womb make him? And did not One fashion us in the womb" Gob 31:13, 15)? Cruelty and effrontery are not frequent except with heathen who worship idols. The... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - Bibles - 1978 - 644 pages
...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 answer him? 15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb? 16 If I have... | |
 | John C. L. Gibson - Religion - 1985 - 300 pages
...then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him? 1?Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb? ""'If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, 17or have eaten my morsel... | |
 | Zondervan - Bible - 1984 - 940 pages
...13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; 14 9 And God said. Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shall call his nam 15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? 16 If I have... | |
 | Christopher J. H. Wright - Religion - 1990 - 312 pages
...the height of Old Testament thinking on slavery is reached in the words of Job 31:15: Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb? Although this is the clearest expression of the slave 's fellow-humanity,2 it is not the only evidence... | |
 | Aaron Kirschenbaum - Religion - 1991 - 316 pages
...Torah" 7:13. despise the cause of my man-servant, or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me... Did not He that made me in the womb make him? And did not One fashion us in the womb? (Job 31:13,15). Cruelty and effrontery are not frequent except with heathens who worship idols. The... | |
 | Raymond L. Weiss - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 244 pages
...complaints of slaves, In addition, Job intimates that slavery exists by what we may call convention: "Did not He that made me in the womb make him? And did not One fashion us in the womb?" (31.15). (c) It is incumbent upon Jews to imitate God's ways and, according to Scripture, "His mercy... | |
 | John Murray - Religion - 1957 - 274 pages
...persons. Paul is reiterating what Job had preached long before: 'If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me; what then shall I do when God riscth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb make... | |
 | Moshe Weinfeld - Bible - 1992 - 492 pages
...yourself (5 : 15), the temper of which is similar to that met with in Job 31 : 15 : 'Did not he who made me in the womb make him ? And did not one fashion us in the womb?' (cf. Ma1. 2: 10). 1 The word u- occurs here in the archaic sense: 'kin' or 'family', cf. fjDN3 Vas?... | |
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