 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, 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...  Select British Classics - Page 351803Full view - About this book
 | Moses Maimonides - Religion - 1972 - 516 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?" (Job 31:13, 15). Cruelty and effrontery are not frequent except with heathen who worship idols. The... | |
 | Ronald Cedric White, Charles Howard Hopkins - Religion - 1976 - 330 pages
...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 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
...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 withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 17... | |
 | Zondervan - Bible - 1984 - 940 pages
...with me; 14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? 15 aac: and 1 will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 17... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Murray - Religion - 1957 - 274 pages
...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 him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?' (Job 3i: 13-15). These arc the considerations that dictate right behaviour; and when they are woven... | |
 | 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... | |
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