Job 6:27
You cause anger to fall on the fatherless, || And are strange to your friend.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
In Context
26For reproof—do you reckon words? And for wind—sayings of the desperate?
28And now, please, look on me, || Even to your face do I lie?
Cross References
Exodus 22:21And you do not oppress a sojourner, nor crush him, for you have been sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Job 22:9You have sent widows away empty, || And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.
Job 24:9They take away violently || The orphan from the breast, || And they lay a pledge on the poor.
Job 31:17And I eat my morsel by myself, || And the orphan has nothing [to] eat of it,
Psalms 7:15He has prepared a pit, and he digs it, || And he falls into a ditch he makes.
Psalms 82:3Judge the weak and fatherless, || Declare the afflicted and the poor righteous.
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 →