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" If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me ; 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... "
Sacred hours; or, Extracts for private devotion & meditation - Page 53
by Sacred hours - 1804
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Christianity and Slavery: In a Course of Lectures Preached at the Cathedral ...

Edward Eliot - 1833 - 266 pages
...Job, I despise the cause of my man-* servant or of my maidservant, when they contend with me, what shall I do when God riseth up ? and when he visiteth,...him ? Did not he that made me in the womb make him f and did not one fashion its in the womb? 9 I trust it will not appear that the duty of giving unto...
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Christianity and slavery; lectures

Edward Eliot - 1833 - 262 pages
...maidservant, when they contend with me, what shall I do when God riseth up ? and when he visifeth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me...womb make him ? and did not one fashion us in the womb?9 I trust it will not appear that the duty of giving unto servants that which is just and equal,...
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Evening Exercises for the Closet: For Every Day in the Year

William Jay - 1833 - 722 pages
...potter, and \ve are all the work of his hands. When Job speaks of his man servant^ he therefore asks, " Did not he that made me in the womb make him ? and did not one fashion us in the womb ?" We have not only "one father," as God is the sole creator, but as Adam is the only founder of our...
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The Tourist: A Literary and Anti-slavery Journal, Volume 1

1833 - 370 pages
...brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with thee. If I did despise the cause of my man-servant, or of...my maid-servant, when they contended with me ; what shall I do when (¡ml riseth up ? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made...
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Selections from the Old Testament: Or, the Religion, Morality and Poetry of ...

Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...hath.cleaved to my hands: 6 Then let me sow, and let another eat, yea, let my offspring be rooted out. 7 If I did despise the cause of my man-servant, or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me; 8 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? 9 Did not...
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The Scottish Pulpit, Volume 1

1833 - 652 pages
...or aversion, pleasure or pain, is regulated by its connection with the question of the Patriarch, " What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ?" It is, however, unnecessary to amplify remarks on this part of the subject, as we have not so much...
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The African Repository, Volume 10

1834 - 450 pages
...render to them that which is just and equal for the world to come ! Is it just and equal to suffer shall I answer him ? Did not He that made me in the...make him ? And did not one fashion us in the womb ?" Our servants may justly have a controversy with us on the subject of their higher and better interests;...
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A Candid Appeal to the Citizens of the United States: Proving that the ...

Simon Clough - 1834 - 58 pages
...humane master, it was tolerable. " If I did despise the cause of my man-servant, or of my maid servant, when they contended with me; what then shall I do...up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?" (Job, xxxi, 13, 14.) From the foregoing observations, I presume it will be readily admitted that the...
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The Anti-slavery Reporter, Volume 7

1852 - 220 pages
...As soon as he has said, "If I did despise the cause of my man-servant," &c., he follows it up with " What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? tDid not he that made me in the womb, make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb ?" In the next...
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Mythopoesis: Mythic Patterns in the Literary Classics

Harry Slochower - 1970 - 376 pages
...the earth and of the rocks. In the following chapter, Job champions the human rights of the slave: Did not He that made me in the womb make him? And did not One fashion us in the womb? Commenting on such passages in the Book, Isaac Mendelssohn writes that Job is the first in the ancient...
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