Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Job 31:14

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, page 111, footnote 21 (Image)

Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus

Ignatius (HTML)

Epistle to the Antiochians (HTML)

Chapter X.—Duties of masters and servants. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1254 (In-Text, Margin)

Ye masters, do not treat your servants with haughtiness, but imitate patient Job, who declares, “I did not despise the cause of my man-servant, or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me. For what in that case shall I do when the Lord makes an inquisition regarding me?”[Job 31:13-14] And you know what follows. Ye servants, do not provoke your masters to anger in anything, lest ye become the authors of incurable mischiefs to yourselves.