Job 6:27

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

Indeed, over the fatherless you make it fall, and you would trade away your friend.

Latin

Super pupillum irruitis, et subvertere nitimini amicum vestrum.

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Job 6:27

even cast lots for an orphan: Job once protected orphans (31:17, 21). He used a common saying to show his counselors' lack of compassion for those who had no one to defend them (see 17:5).

Job 6:14–27

Job and his friends might have shared a covenant (special agreement) of loyalty and faith (Hebrew khesed; see Genesis 21:23; Exodus 15:13; 1 Chronicles 16:34). This bond would have made them like brothers, those who protect, and friends he could trust (Job 6:14–15; 6:21–23, 27). If they were in a covenant with one another, Job was accusing his friends of violating their covenant with him.

Job 6:1–7:21

Job responds by criticizing his counselors and questioning God (chapters 6 and 7). He explains his intense words by indicating his deep "grief" or "anguish" (6:2–3; 7:11). Job states that Eliphaz has not provided comfort or sympathy as a friend. Instead, Eliphaz chose to argue about out of date religious or theological ideas.

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Psalm 7:15
He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
James 1:27
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 24:3
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
Nahum 3:10
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.
Job 24:9
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
Joel 3:3
They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
Job 22:9
You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
2 Peter 2:3
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.
Jeremiah 18:22
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.
Psalm 82:3
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
Job 31:21
…if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
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.

Glossary

Book of Job Orphan

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Fatherless: The Wicked: Overwhelm Orphan: General Scriptures Concerning

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