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Job Chapter 31 verse 13 Holy Bible

ASV Job 31:13

If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;
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BBE Job 31:13

If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;
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DARBY Job 31:13

If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,
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KJV Job 31:13

If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
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WBT Job 31:13

If I despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me;
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WEB Job 31:13

"If I have despised the cause of my man-servant Or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;
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YLT Job 31:13

If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 13. - If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant. Job now disclaims a fourth sin - the oppression of his dependants. Eliphaz had taxed him generally with harshness and cruelty in his relations towards those weaker than himself (Job 22:5-9), but had not specially pointed to this kind of oppressiveness. As, however, this was the commonest form of the vice, Job deems it right to disclaim it, before addressing himself to the several charges brought by Eliphaz. He has not ill used his slaves, either male or female. He has not "despised their cause," but given it full consideration and attention; he has heard them when they contended with him; he has allowed them to "contend;" he has been a just, and not a hard master. The slavery of which he speaks is evidently of a kind under which the slave had certain rights, as was the case also under the Mosaic Law (Exodus 21:2-11).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) If I did despise.--In Job 22:8, Eliphaz had insinuated that Job had favoured the rich and powerful, but had oppressed and ground down the weak. He now meets this accusation, and affirms that he had regarded his own servants even as brethren, because partakers of a common humanity.