Catholic Public Domain Version
"If I have despised being subject to judgment with my servant or my maid, when they had any complaint against me, "
— Job 31:13, Catholic Public Domain Version
“If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;”
“If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-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;”
““If I have disregarded the right of my male servants or my female servants when they disputed with me,”
“If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:”
“If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;”
“If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;”
then let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lean over her.
For this is a crime and a very great injustice.
It is a fire devouring all the way to perdition, and it roots out all that springs forth.
If I have despised being subject to judgment with my servant or my maid, when they had any complaint against me,
then what will I do when God rises to judge, and, when he inquires, how will I respond to him?
Is not he who created me in the womb, also he who labored to make him? And did not one and the same form me in the womb?
If I have denied the poor what they wanted and have made the eyes of the widow wait;