Job 6:27
Truly ye spread a net for the fatherless; Ye dig a pit for your friend.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
In Context
26Do ye mean to censure words? The words of a man in despair are but wind.
28Look now upon me, I pray you; For to your very face can I speak falsehood?
Cross References
Job 22:9Thou hast sent widows away empty, And broken the arms of the fatherless.
Job 24:9The fatherless are torn from the breast, And the garment of the needy is taken for a pledge.
Job 31:17If I have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not partaken of it;
Psalms 7:15He made a pit and digged it. And is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Psalms 82:3Defend the poor and the fatherless; Do justice to the wretched and the needy!
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 →