Ye masters, do not treat your servants with
haughtiness, but imitate patient Job, who de-
clares, "I did not despise '9 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 regard-
ing me?"^' And you know what follows. Ye
servants, do not provoke your masters to anger
in anything, lest ye become the authors of in-
curable mischiefs to yourselves.