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Job 6:27

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

Yea, ye overwhelm {H5307} the fatherless {H3490}, and ye dig {H3738} a pit for your friend {H7453}.

I suppose you would even throw dice for an orphan or barter away your friend!

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

Yea, ye would castlotsupon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.

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Cross-References

  • Nahum 3:10 (3 votes)

    Yet [was] she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

  • Psalms 7:15 (3 votes)

    He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch [which] he made.

  • Job 24:9 (3 votes)

    They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

  • Job 22:9 (3 votes)

    Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • James 1:27 (3 votes)

    Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.

  • 2 Peter 2:3 (3 votes)

    ¶ And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

  • Job 24:3 (3 votes)

    They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.