Job 31:13

Job's Final Defense Continued

¹² For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase. ¹³ If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me, ¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall I answer him?

Despised and Rejected

Male and Female

Male or Female

Job

Exodus 21:20-21

And if a man smites his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

Exodus 21:26-27

And if a man smites the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

Leviticus 25:43

Thou shall not rule over him with rigor, but shall fear thy God.

Leviticus 25:46

And ye shall make them an inheritance for your sons after you, to hold for a possession. Ye shall take them your bondmen forever, but over your brothers the sons of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.

Deuteronomy 15:12-15

If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to thee, and serves thee six years, then in the seventh year thou shall let him go free from thee.

Deuteronomy 24:14-15

Thou shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brothers, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates.

Jeremiah 34:14-17

At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to thee, and has served thee six years. Thou shall let him go free from thee. But your fathers hearkened not to me, nor inclined the

Ephesians 6:9

And ye masters, do the same things to them, easing up the threats, knowing also that the master of you yourselves is in the heavens, and there is no partiality from him.

Colossians 4:1

Masters, present to the bondmen what is right and equitable, knowing that ye also have a Master in heavens.