“If I have despised the cause of my male servant
or of my female servant,
when they contended with me,
“If I have despised the cause of my male servant
or of my female servant,
when they contended with me,
Job 31:10–16
then let my wife grind for another,
and let others sleep with her.
For that would be a heinous crime.
Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges,
for it is a fire that consumes to destruction,
and would root out all my increase.
“If I have despised the cause of my male servant
or of my female servant,
when they contended with me,
what then will I do when God rises up?
When he visits, what will I answer him?
Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him?
Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?
“If I have withheld the poor from their desire,
or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
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