Job 6:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ You would even cast lots over the orphan and bargain over your friend.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, And ye dig a pit for your friend.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ Yes, you would cast lots over the fatherless and bargain away your friend.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.

Common English Bible

²⁷ Would you even gamble over an orphan, barter away your friend?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ You encroach upon the orphan, and you strive to undermine your friend.

Job 6:27 Cross References

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Nahum 3:10

Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity; even her infants were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; lots were cast for her nobles; all her dignitaries were bound in fetters.

Joel 3:3

and cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes and sold girls for wine and drunk it down.

Psalm 7:15

They make a pit, digging it out, and fall into the hole that they have made.

Job 24:9

“There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.

Job 24:3

They drive away the donkey of the orphan; they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

Job 22:9

You have sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you have crushed.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the alien residing within you suffers extortion; the orphan and the widow are wronged in you.

Jeremiah 18:22

May a cry be heard from their houses when you bring the marauder suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to catch me and laid snares for my feet.

Jeremiah 18:20

Is evil a recompense for good? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

Psalm 82:3

Give justice to the weak and the orphan; maintain the right of the lowly and the destitute.

Psalm 57:6

They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my path, but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah

Job 31:21

if I have raised my hand against the orphan because I saw I had supporters at the gate;

Job 31:17

or have eaten my morsel alone and the orphan has not eaten from it—

Job 29:12

because I delivered the poor who cried and the orphan who had no helper.

Exodus 22:21

“You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.