Job 6:27

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.

Cross References

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words; from of old their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction has not been asleep.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Nahum 3:10

Yet she was carried away, she went into captivity; her little ones were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains.

Joel 3:3

and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and have sold a girl for wine, and have drunk it.

Psalm 7:15

He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole which he has made.

Job 24:9

(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and take in pledge the infant of the poor.)

Job 24:3

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

Job 22:9

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

Malachi 3:5

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.

Jeremiah 18:22

May a cry be heard from their houses, when thou bringest the marauder suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to take 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 thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.

Psalm 82:3

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

Psalm 57:6

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

Job 31:21

if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw help in the gate;

Job 31:17

or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

Job 29:12

because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless who had none to help him.

Exodus 22:21

“You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.