Job 6:27
Surely, the fatherless, ye would assail, and make merchandise of your friend!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
In Context
26To decide words, do ye intend, When, to the wind, are spoken the sayings of one in despair?
28But, now, be pleased to turn to me, that it may be, to your faces, if I speak falsehood,
Cross References
Exodus 22:21And, a sojourner, shalt thou not tread down neither shalt thou drive him away,—for sojourners, ye became in the land of Egypt.
Job 22:9Widows, thou hast sent away empty, and, the arms of the fatherless, thou dost crush.
Job 24:9Men tear, from the breast, the fatherless, and, over the poor, they take a pledge;
Job 31:17Or, used to eat my morsel alone, so that the fatherless did not eat thereof;
Psalms 7:15A pit, he cut out, and digged it, and then fell into the ditch he had made:
Psalms 82:3Vindicate the weak and the fatherless, The oppressed and the poor, see righted;
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 →