 | Slavery - 1852 - 220 pages
...with " What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? tDid not he that made me in the womb, make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb ?" In the next verse Job glories in the fact that he has not " withheld from the poor their desire."... | |
 | Harry Slochower - Myth in literature - 1970 - 376 pages
...the earth and of the rocks. In the following chapter, Job champions the human rights of the slave: Did not He that made me in the womb make him? And did not One fashion us in the womb? Commenting on such passages in the Book, Isaac Mendelssohn writes that Job is the first in the ancient... | |
 | 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
...of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me; what then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me; what then shall I do when God riscth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?...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... | |
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If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, 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... 
