Job 31:15

“Did not he that made me in the womb make him? etc.] 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 (<390210>Malachi 2:10); God is one in nature and essence, though there are three Persons…”

“Slaveholders try to defend themselves by maintaining the original inferiority of the slave. But Mal 2:10; Act 17:26; Eph 6:9 make the common origin of masters and servants the argument for brotherly love being shown by the former to the latter.”

“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…”

“Did not he: Job 34:19; Neh 5:5; Pro 14:31, Pro 22:2; Isa 58:7; Mal 2:10 did not one fashion us in the womb: or, did he not fashion us in one womb, Job 10:8-12; Psa 139:14-16 Job 31:16”