OLD TESTAMENT

Job 31:13

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

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Verse 13. Me, in private; as slaves had no redress in the common courts of judicature. We cannot but admire Job’s humility, and noble sentiments of God, ( Calmet.) whose majesty will eclipse all human grandeur, and place the master and the servant on the same level. Saint Gregory Saint Augustine de Civ. Dei. x. 25. Ephesians 6:9. Colossians 4:1.

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