Job 6:27
Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
In Context
26My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.
28Now then, let your eyes be turned to me, for truly I will not say what is false to your face.
Cross References
Exodus 22:21Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt.
Job 22:9You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.
Job 24:9The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.
Job 31:17If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;
Psalms 7:15\7:14\That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.
Psalms 82:3Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights.
Matthew Henry on Job 6:23-30
22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance? 23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty? 24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. 25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? 26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind? 27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. 28 Now therefore be content, look… Read the whole commentary →