Księga Hioba 31:15

Biblia Tysiąclecia

Izaż nie ten, który mię w żywocie uczynił, nie uczynił też i onego? a nie onże nas sam w żywocie wykształtował?)

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Izaż nie ten, który mię sprawił w żywocie, sprawił też i onego? A tenże nas sam wykształtował w żywocie.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Izaż nie ten, który mię w żywocie uczynił, nie uczynił też i onego? a nie onże nas sam w żywocie wykształtował?)

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
Czy Ten, który mnie stworzył we wnętrzu mojej matki, nie stworzył także moich sług? I czy On, nie kto inny, nie ukształtował nas w łonie?

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Czyż Ten sam, który mnie stworzył w łonie, nie stworzył i jego; czyż nie Jeden nas ukształtował w łonie matki?

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Czy ten, który mnie stworzył w łonie, nie stworzył też jego? Czy nie on jeden ukształtował nas w łonie?

Biblia Warszawska
Czyż ten, który mnie stworzył w łonie matki, nie stworzył i jego? I czyż nie On jeden ukształtował nas w łonie?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Did not he: Job 34:19, Nehemiah 5:5, Proverbs 14:31, Proverbs 22:2, Isaiah 58:7, Malachi 2:10

did not one fashion us in the womb: or, did he not fashion us in one womb, Job 10:8-12, Psalms 139:14-16

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 28:15 - clothed Psalms 139:13 - covered me Isaiah 44:24 - and he James 1:27 - To visit

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Did not he that made me in the womb make him?.... And her also, both his manservant and maidservant: these were made, by the Lord as Job was, and in a like place and manner as he himself; though parents are the instruments of begetting children, and of bringing them into the world, God is the Maker of men, as at the beginning, and all are alike made by him, in whatsoever rank, condition, and circumstance of life, whether masters or servants; and they are all fabricated in the same shop of nature, the womb of a woman:

and did not one fashion us in the womb? that is, he who is the one God, according to Malachi 2:10; God is one in nature and essence, though there are three Persons in the unity of the Godhead; and this one God, Father, Son, and Spirit, is the Creator of all men and things; hence we read of "Creators", Ecclesiastes 12:1; and, though one God makes the bodies and creates the souls of men now as at the first, and all are formed and fashioned by him, high, low, rich and poor, bond and free; and they have all the same rational powers and faculties of soul, Psalms 33:15; as well as the same curious art and skill are employed in forming and fashioning their bodies and the members of them, in the lower parts of the earth, in their mother's womb; yea, they are fashioned "in one womb" h, as the words will better bear to be rendered according to the position of them in the original and the accents; not indeed in the same identical womb, but in a like one: there are two words in the original here, both translated "womb"; the one signifies the "ovarium", in which the conception is made; the other designs the "secundine", in which the fetus is wrapped or covered; for so it may be rendered, "did he not cover us?" c. i though Jarchi, Aben Ezra, Ben Gersom, and others, interpret it of the one God as we do: Job's reasoning is, that seeing he and his servants were equally the workmanship of God, and both made in the womb by him, and curiously fashioned alike, and possessed of the same rational powers, it would be unreasonable in him to use them ill, who were his fellow creatures; and should he, he might expect the Maker of them both would highly resent it. Macrobius k, an Heathen writer, gives a remarkable instance of the care heaven, as he expresses it, has of servants, and how much the contempt of it is resented thereby; and reasons much in the same manner concerning them as Job does here, that they are men, though servants; are of the same original, breathe in the same air, live and die as other men.

h ברחם אחד εν τη αυτη κοιλια, Sept. "in utero uno", Munster; so Beza, Drusius, Michaelis. i Saturnal. l. 1. c. 11. k Vid. Hackman. Praecidan. Sacr. p. 193.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? - Had we not one and the same Creator, and have we not consequently the same nature? We may observe in regard to this sentiment, (1.) That it indicates a very advanced state of view in regard to man. The attempt has been always made by those who wish to tyrannize over others, or who aim to make slaves of others, to show that they are of a different race, and that in the design for which they were made, they are wholly inferior. Arguments have been derived from their complexion, from their supposed inferiority of intellect, and the deep degradation of their condition, often little above that of brutes, to prove that they were originally inferior to the rest of mankind. On this the plea has been often urged, and oftener felt than urged, that it is right to reduce them to slavery. Since this feeling so early existed, and since there is so much that may be plausibly said in defense of it, it shows that Job had derived his views from something more than the speculations of people, and the desire of power, when he says that he regarded all people as originally equal, and as having the same Creator. It is in fact a sentiment which people have been practically very reluctant to believe, and which works its way very slowly even yet on the earth; compare Acts 17:26. (2.) This sentiment, if fairly embraced and carried out, would soon destroy slavery everywhere.

If people felt that they were reducing to bondage those who were originally on a level with themselves - made by the same God, with the same faculties, and for the same end; if they felt that in their very origin, in their nature, there was that which could not be made mere property, it would soon abolish the whole system. It is kept up only where people endeavor to convince themselves that there is some original inferiority in the slave which makes it proper that he should be reduced to servitude and be held as property. But as soon as there can be diffused abroad the sentiment of Paul, that “God hath made of one blood all nations of men,” Acts 17:26, or the sentiment of the patriarch Job, that “the same God made us and them in the womb,” that moment the shackles of the slave will fall, and he will be free. Hence it is apparent, how Christianity, that carries this lesson on its fore-front, is the grand remedy for the evils of slavery, and needs only to be universally diffused to bring the system to an end.

And did not one fashion us in the womb - Margin, Or, did he not fashion us in one womb? The Hebrew will bear either construction, but the parallelism rather requires that given in the text, and most expositors agree in this interpretation. The sentiment is, whichever interpretation be adopted, that they had a common origin; that God would watch over them alike as his children; and that, therefore, they had equal rights.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 31:15. Did not he that made me - make him? — I know that God is the Judge of all; that all shall appear before him in that state where the king and his subject, the master and his slave, shall be on an equal footing, all civil distinctions being abolished for ever. If, then I had treated my slaves with injustice, how could I stand before the judgment-seat of God? I have treated others as I wish to be treated.