Job 6:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ You rush in upon the fatherless: and you endeavour to overthrow your friend.

Job 6:27 Cross References

Job 22:9

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

Job 24:3

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

Job 24:9

There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor:

Job 29:12

Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.

Job 31:17

Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

Job 31:21

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:

Psalm 57:6

They have prepared a net for my steps; Thy soul is bowed down: They have digged a pit before me; They are fallen into the midst thereof themselves. Selah

Psalm 7:15

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

Psalm 82:3

Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

Exodus 22:21

And a stranger shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Jeremiah 18:20

Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy fury from them.

Jeremiah 18:22

Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

Ezekiel 22:7

In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee, have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Joel 3:3

and they have cast lots for my people: and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

Nahum 3:10

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.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you to judgement; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers; and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

James 1:27

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

2 Peter 2:3

And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.