Job 6:27
You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
In Context
26Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
28But now, please look at me. Would I lie to your face?
Cross References
Exodus 22:21You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Job 22:9You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
Job 24:9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
Job 31:17if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—
Psalms 7:15He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
Psalms 82:3Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
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 →