Job 31:13
Good News Translation
When any of my servants complained against me, I would listen and treat them fairly.

New Revised Standard Version
“If I have rejected the cause of my male or female slaves, when they brought a complaint against me;

Contemporary English Version
When my servants complained against me, I was fair to them.

New American Bible
Had I refused justice to my manservant or to my maidservant, when they had a complaint against me,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:

the cause

Exodus 21:20,21,26,27 He that striketh his bondman, or bondwoman, with a rod, and they die under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime. . . .

Leviticus 25:43,46 Afflict him not by might: but fear thy God. . . .

Deuteronomy 15:12-15 When thy brother a Hebrew man, or Hebrew woman is sold to thee, and hath served thee six years, in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free: . . .

Jeremiah 34:14-17 At the end of seven years, let ye go every man his brother being a Hebrew, who hath been sold to thee, so he shall serve thee six years: and thou shalt let him go free from thee: and your fathers did not hearken to me, nor did they incline their ear. . . .

Ephesians 6:9 And you, masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatenings: knowing that the Lord both of them and you is in heaven. And there is no respect of persons with him.

Colossians 4:1 Masters, do to your servants that which is just and equal: knowing that you also have a master in heaven.

Context
Job's Final Appeal
12It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring. 13If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:14For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?…
Cross References
Ephesians 6:9
And you, masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatenings: knowing that the Lord both of them and you is in heaven. And there is no respect of persons with him.

Deuteronomy 24:14
Thou shalt not refuse the hire of the needy, and the poor, whether he be thy brother, or a stranger that dwelleth with thee in the land, and is within thy gates:

Deuteronomy 24:15
But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same day, before the going down of the sun, because he is poor, and with it maintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a sin.

Job 31:14
For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?

Job 31:12
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