Job 6:27 “You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.”

Job 6:27

You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

World English Bible

Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

American Standard Version

Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.

Geneva Bible 1599

Ye make your wrath to fall vpon the fatherlesse, and dig a pit for your friende.

Darby Translation

Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and dig [a pit] for your friend.

Young's Literal Translation

Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.

Bible in Basic English

Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.

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Cross references

“the fatherless”

Job 22:9 Job 24:3 Job 24:9 James 1:27 Job 29:12 Job 31:17

Job 22:9 · BSB

You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

Job 24:3 · BSB

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

Job 24:9 · BSB

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

James 1:27 · BSB

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

Job 29:12 · BSB

because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.

Job 31:17 · BSB

if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—

“ye dig”

Psalm 7:15 Psalm 57:6 Jeremiah 18:20 Jeremiah 18:22

Psalm 7:15 · BSB

He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

Psalm 57:6 · BSB

They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah

Jeremiah 18:20 · BSB

Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.

Jeremiah 18:22 · BSB

Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.

Also

2 Peter 2:3 Nahum 3:10 Joel 3:3

2 Peter 2:3 · BSB

In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

Nahum 3:10 · BSB

Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.

Joel 3:3 · BSB

They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

26Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?

28But now, please look at me. Would I lie to your face?

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