Job 6:27

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.ye overwhelm: Heb. ye cause to fall upon

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

You cause anger to fall on the fatherless, || And are strange to your friend.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

You rush in upon the fatherless, and you endeavour to overthrow your friend.

GNV

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

JPS

Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, and dig a pit for your friend.

LXXE

Even because ye attack the fatherless, and insult your friend.

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WLC

אַף־עַל־יָת֥וֹם תַּפִּ֑ילוּ וְ֝תִכְר֗וּ עַל־רֵֽיעֲכֶֽם׃

LXX-Br

Πλὴν ὅτι ἐπʼ ὀρφανῷ ἐπιπίπτετε, ἐνάλλεσθε δὲ ἐπὶ φίλῳ ὑμῶν.

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• Nahum 3:10Yet 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.
• Psalms 7:15He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
• Joel 3:3They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
• Job 24:9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
• 2 Peter 2:3In 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.
• James 1:27Pure 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 22:9You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
• Job 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
• Psalms 82:3Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
• Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of…
• Job 29:12because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
• Ezekiel 22:7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
• Jeremiah 18:22Let 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.
• Exodus 22:22–24You must not mistreat any widow or orphan. If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry. My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will…
• Job 31:21if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
• Proverbs 23:10–11Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless, for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you.

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