Job 6:27
Even because you⌃ attack the fatherless, and insult your friend.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
In Context
28But now, having looked upon your countenances, I will not lie.
Cross References
Exodus 22:21And you⌃ shall not hurt a stranger, nor afflict him; for you⌃ were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Job 22:9But you have sent widows away empty, and has afflicted orphans.
Job 24:9They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast.
Job 31:17And if too I ate my morsel alone, and did not impart of it to the orphan;
Psalms 7:15He has opened a pit, and dug it up, and he shall fall into the ditch which he has made. 1
Psalms 82:3Against your people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against your saints. 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 →