Job Chapter 31 verse 14 Holy Bible

ASV Job 31:14

What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
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BBE Job 31:14

What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?
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DARBY Job 31:14

What then should I do when ùGod riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him?
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KJV Job 31:14

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

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

What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?
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YLT Job 31:14

Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him?
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 14, 15. - What then shall I do when God riseth up? Job regards God as the Avenger and Champion of all the oppressed. If he had been harsh and cruel to his dependants, he would have provoked God's anger, and God would assuredly "rise up" one day to punish. What, then, could he (Job) do? What but submit in silence? When he visiteth, what shall I answer him? There could be no valid defence. The slave was still a man, a brother - God's creature, equally with his master. Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? God "hath made of one Mood all nations of men," and all individual me, "to dwell on the face of the earth" (Acts 17:26). All have rights - in a certain sense, equal rights. All are entitled to just treatment, to kind treatment, to merciful treatment. Job is before his age in recognizing the substantial equality of the slave with the freeman, which otherwise was scarcely taught by any until the promulgation of the gospel (see 1 Timothy 6:2; Philemon 1:16).

Ellicott's Commentary