Job 6:27
Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
In Context
26Do ye imagine to reprove words? seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind.
28Now therefore be pleased to look upon me; for surely I shall not lie to your face.
Cross References
Exodus 22:21And a stranger shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou 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 24:9There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:
Job 31:17Or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
Psalms 7:15He hath made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Psalms 82:3Judge the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
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 →