Job 6:27 - Tree of Life Version Would you cast lots for an orphan, and barter over your friend? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, And ye dig a pit for your friend. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Yes, you would cast lots over the fatherless and bargain away your friend. American Standard Version (1901) Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend. Common English Bible Would you even gamble over an orphan, barter away your friend? Catholic Public Domain Version You encroach upon the orphan, and you strive to undermine your friend. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version You rush in upon the fatherless: and you endeavour to overthrow your friend. |
They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
The orphan is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.
for I saved the poor who cried for help, and the orphan who had no one to help him;
if I ate my morsel of bread myself, without letting an orphan eat of it
if I have raised my hand against the orphan, when I saw my support in the gate,
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens. Let Your glory be over all the earth!
Look! The one pregnant with trouble conceives mischief and brings forth deceit.
Give justice to the poor and fatherless. Be just to the afflicted and destitute.
Will good be repaid for evil? For they dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.
Let a cry be heard from their houses when suddenly You bring a troop on them. For they dug a pit to capture me, and hid snares for my feet.
Father and mother have been treated with contempt; the outsider has been oppressed in your midst; the orphan and the widow have been mistreated in you.
I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth— blood, fire and pillars of smoke.
Yet she went off to exile among the captives. Even her babes were dashed to pieces at the head of all streets. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her great men were bound with chains.
“Then I will draw near to you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, perjurers those who extort a worker’s wage, or oppress the widow or an orphan, those who mislead a stranger. They do not fear Me,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
In their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.