Job 6:27
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and dig [a pit] for your friend.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
In Context
26Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind.
28Now therefore if ye will, look upon me; and it shall be to your face if I lie.
Cross References
Exodus 22:21Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him; for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt.
Job 22:9Widows hast thou sent empty away, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 24:9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:
Job 31:17Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,
Psalms 7:15He digged a pit, and hollowed it out, and is fallen into the hole that he made.
Psalms 82:3Judge the poor and the fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and the destitute;
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 →