Exodus 23:4-5 If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.… The horse of a pious man living in Massachusetts, North America, happening to stray into the road, a neighbour of the man who owned the horse put him into the pound. Meeting the owner soon after, he told him what he had done; "And if I catch him in the road again," said he, "I'll do it again." "Neighbour," replied the other, "not long since I looked out of my window in the night and saw your cattle in my meadow, and I drove them out and shut them in your yard; and I'll do it again." Struck with the reply, the man liberated the horse from the pound, and paid the charges himself. "A soft answer turneth away wrath." Parallel Verses KJV: If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. |
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