Job 6:27
You rush in upon the fatherless, and you endeavour to overthrow your friend.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
In Context
26You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the wind.
28However finish what you have begun, give ear, and see whether I lie.
Cross References
Exodus 22:21Thou shalt not molest a stranger, nor afflict him: for yourselves also were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Job 22:9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.
Job 24:9They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.
Job 31:17If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:
Psalms 7:15Behold he hath been in labour with injustice; he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth iniquity.
Psalms 82:3Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor.
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 →