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Job 31:13

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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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

What then shall I do when God riseth up?.... That is, if he had despised and rejected the cause of his servants, or had neglected, or refused to do them justice; he signifies he should be at the…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

If I did despise the cause of my man-servant - Job turns to another subject, on which he claimed that his life had been upright. It was in reference to the treatment of his servants. The meaning here…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 31:9-15

Two more instances we have here of Job's integrity: -

I. That he had a very great abhorrence of the sin of adultery. As he did not wrong his own marriage bed by keeping a concubine (he did not so…