Job 31:13

WEB

¹³“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,

KJV

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

BSB

¹³If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,

FBV

¹³If I had refused to listen to my menservants or maidservants when they brought their complaints to me,

Extra References

Ephesians 6:9

⁹You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

¹⁴You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates. ¹⁵In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it, for he is poor and sets his heart on it, lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.

Exodus 21:26-27

²⁶“If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake. ²⁷If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let the servant go free for his tooth’s sake.

Exodus 21:20-21

²⁰“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished. ²¹Notwithstanding, if his servant gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for the servant is his property.

Colossians 4:1

¹Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Leviticus 25:43

⁴³You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

Jeremiah 34:14-17

¹⁴At the end of seven years, every man of you shall release his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years. You shall let him go free from you. But your fathers didn’t listen to me, and didn’t incline their ear. ¹⁵You had now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in every man proclaiming liberty to his neighbor. You had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name; ¹⁶but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return. You brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.’”

¹⁷Therefore the LORD says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says the LORD, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

Leviticus 25:46

⁴⁶You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession. Of them you may take your slaves forever, but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

Deuteronomy 15:12-15

¹²If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. ¹³When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty. ¹⁴You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. ¹⁵You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.