Job 31:15

13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

14 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 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 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?
KJV
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
WEB
Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?
ASV
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
DARBY
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not One fashion us in the womb?
BLB
Did not the One making me in the belly make them, and [that] One prepare us in the womb?
ÅB
Har ikke han som skapte meg i mors liv, skapt også dem, og har ikke en og den samme dannet oss i mors liv?
OTB
Har ikke Han som skapte meg i mors liv også skapt dem,
Og har ikke den samme dannet oss i mors liv?
B1930
Har ikke han som skapte mig i mors liv, skapt også dem, og har ikke en og den samme dannet oss i mors liv?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Proverbs 14:31

    He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

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  • Proverbs 22:2

    The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.

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  • Malachi 2:10

    Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

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  • Job 34:19

    How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

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  • Job 10:8–12

    Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

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  • Nehemiah 5:5

    Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

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  • Isaiah 58:7

    Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

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  • Psalms 139:14–16

    I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

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