15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
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He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
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.
The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
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?
Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)Two more instances we have here of Job’s integrity:— I. That he had a very great abhorrence of the sin of adultery. As he did not wrong his own marriage bed by keeping a concubine (he did not so much as think upon a maid, Job 31:1), so he was careful not to offer any injury to his neighbour’s marriage bed. Let us see here, 1. How clear he was from this sin, Job 31:9. (1.) He did not so much as cov…
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