Job 6:27
You would play dice to win an orphan; you would bargain away your friend!
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
In Context
28Look me in the eye and see if I'm lying to your face!
Cross References
Exodus 22:21You must not exploit or mistreat a foreigner. Remember that you yourselves were once foreigners in Egypt.
Job 22:9You have sent widows away empty-handed; you have crushed the outstretched arms of orphans, begging for help.
Job 24:9Fatherless children are snatched from their mother's breasts, taking the babies of the poor as security for a debt.
Job 31:17Have I even eaten just a piece of bread by myself? Haven't I always shared my food with orphans?
Psalms 7:15They dig a deep hole to catch people, but then fall into it themselves.
Psalms 82:3Defend the poor and orphans; support the rights of those who are oppressed and suffering.
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 →