Job 6:27
Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
World English Bible Catholic
In The King James Version
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
In Context
26Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
28Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I will not lie to your face.
Cross References
Exodus 22:21“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
Job 22:9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 24:9There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
Job 31:17or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
Psalms 7:15He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.
Psalms 82:3“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor 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 →