07.05.2014 Old Testament: Job 31.13–15

To read the Bible in a year, read Job 31–32 on July 5, In the year of our Lord 2014

By Don Ruhl

In Job 31, Job began to list possible sins that someone could charge against him, but he pointed out that he had not been guilty of any of them, and he lists why. For example, consider this one,

“If I have despised the cause of my male or female servant
When they complained against me,
What then shall I do when God rises up?
When He punishes, how shall I answer Him?
Did not He who made me in the womb make them?
Did not the same One fashion us in the womb?”
(Job 31.13–15) 

Job knew that he had not sinned against his servants, because he knew that he could not answer to God for it. Job also knew that he was not greater than his servants. Therefore, he would not have treated them unfairly.

Let us have the same thoughts that we might not sin against others, but that we would always treat them properly.