Job 6:27
Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
In Context
26For reproof — do you reckon words? And for wind — sayings of the desperate.
28And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do I lie?
Cross References
Exodus 22:21'And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, nor crush him, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.
Job 22:9Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.
Job 24:9They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.
Job 31:17And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,
Psalms 7:15A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.
Psalms 82:3Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.
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 →