5 Bible Verses about Employers, Bad Examples

But Abram said to Sarai, “Look, your maid is entirely in your hands and subject to your authority; do as you please with her.” So Sarai treated her harshly and humiliated her, and Hagar fled from her.

Yet your father has cheated me [as often as possible] and changed my wages ten times; but God did not allow him to hurt me.

So Joseph’s master took him and put him in the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were confined; so he was there in the prison.

And the Egyptians made the Israelites serve rigorously [forcing them into severe slavery].

David said to him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” He said, “I am a young man from Egypt, a servant of an Amalekite; and my master abandoned me [as useless] when I fell sick three days ago.