Job 6:27

Even because ye attack the fatherless, 1 And insult your friend. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

In Context

26Neither will your reproof cause me to cease my words, 1 For neither will I endure the sound of your speech. 1

28But now, having looked upon your countenances, I will not lie. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 22:21Ye shall hurt no widow or orphan.

Job 22:9But thou hast sent widows away empty, 1 And hast afflicted orphans. 1

Job 24:9They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, 1 And have afflicted the outcast. 1

Job 31:17And if too I ate my morsel alone, 1 And did not impart of it to the orphan 1

Psalms 7:15Behold, he has travailed with unrighteousness, 1 He has conceived trouble, and brought forth iniquity. 1

Psalms 82:3For behold, thine enemies have made a noise; 1 And they that hate thee have lifted up the head. 1

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 →

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