Job 6:27
You encroach upon the orphan, and you strive to undermine your friend.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
In Context
26You prepare speeches as so much noise, and you offer words into the wind.
28Such is true, so finish what you have begun. Listen closely, and see if I lie.
Cross References
Exodus 22:21You shall not harass the newcomer, nor shall you afflict him. For you yourselves were once newcomers in the land of Egypt.
Job 22:9You have sent widows away empty, and you have crushed the shoulders of orphans.
Job 24:9They have used violence to deprive orphans, and they have robbed the poor common people.
Job 31:17if I have eaten my morsel of food alone, while orphans have not eaten from it;
Psalms 7:15Behold him who has given birth to injustice: he has conceived sorrow and has begotten iniquity.
Psalms 82:3For behold, your enemies have sounded off, and those who hate you have carried out a head.
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 →