Job 6:27
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.”
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BSBPD
“You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Yea, ye would castlotsupon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 6:27 — 20 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 22:21You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 22:22You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.
- 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.
- Job 24:9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
- Job 29:12because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
- Job 31:17if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—
- Job 31:21if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
- Psalms 7:15He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
- Psalms 57:6They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah
- Psalms 82:3Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
- Proverbs 23:10Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
- Jeremiah 18:20Should 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 18:22Let 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.
- Ezekiel 22:7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
- Joel 3:3They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
- 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.
- 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 their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- 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.
- 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.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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