Job 6:27
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
King James Version
In Context
26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
28Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
Cross References
Exodus 22:21Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Job 22:9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 24:9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Job 31:17Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
Psalms 7:15He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Psalms 82:3Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and 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 →