Exodus 5:15

New International Version

Then the Israelite overseers went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why have you treated your servants this way?

Cross References

Job 3:18

Captives also enjoy their ease; they no longer hear the slave driver’s shout.

Exodus 1:11

So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

Exodus 5:14

And Pharaoh’s slave drivers beat the Israelite overseers they had appointed, demanding, “Why haven’t you met your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as before?”

Exodus 5:16

Your servants are given no straw, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”