Job 6:27
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 6 connects to 10 cross-references. Job responds to Eliphaz with a passionate defense of his anguish, comparing his grief to sand on seashores. He accuses his friends of being like a wadi that disappoints travelers in the dry season, pleading for honesty rather than empty …
Other Translations
Yea, ye would castlotsupon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.
Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.
Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.
Cross References
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, …
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, …