Job 6:27
Ye make your wrath to fall vpon the fatherlesse, and dig a pit for your friende.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
In Context
26Doe ye imagine to reproue wordes, that the talke of the afflicted should be as the winde?
28Nowe therefore be content to looke vpon me: for I will not lie before your face.
Cross References
Exodus 22:21Moreouer, thou shalt not do iniurie to a stranger, neither oppresse him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Job 22:9Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, and the armes of the fatherles were broken.
Job 24:9They plucke the fatherles from the breast, and take the pledge of the poore.
Job 31:17Or haue eaten my morsels alone, and the fatherles hath not eaten thereof,
Psalms 7:15Hee hath made a pitte and digged it, and is fallen into the pit that he made.
Psalms 82:3Doe right to the poore and fatherlesse: doe iustice to the poore and needie.
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 →