Job 6:27
Yea, ye would cast any thing upon the fatherless, and ye would dig a pit against your friend.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
In Context
26Do ye think to reprove words, and [to regard] as wind the speeches of one that is despairing?
Cross References
Exodus 22:21(22:20) And a stranger thou shalt not vex, and shalt not oppress him; for strangers ye were in the land of Egypt.
Job 22:9Widows hast thou sent away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 24:9The others pluck from the breast the fatherless, and the garment of the poor they take in pledge.
Job 31:17Or if ever I ate my bread by myself alone, and the fatherless did not eat thereof;
Psalms 7:15(7:16) He hath hollowed out a pit, and dug it, and is fallen into the ditch which he hath wrought.
Psalms 82:3Judge uprightly the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and indigent.
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 →