Job 6:27
“Yea, ye ouerwhelme the fatherlesse, and you digge a pit for your friend.”
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Job 6:27 Context
25How forcible are right wordes? but what doeth your arguing reproue? 26Do ye imagine to reproue words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as winde? 27Yea, ye ouerwhelme the fatherlesse, and you digge a pit for your friend. 28Now therefore be content, looke vpon mee, for it is euident vnto you, if I lie. 29Returne, I pray you, let it not be iniquitie; yea returne againe: my righteousnesse is in it.
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Other Translations
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit] for your friend.
- King James Version
"You would even cast {lots} for the orphans And barter over your friend.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Yea, ye would cast `lots' upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.
- American Standard Version (1901)
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.
- Basic English Bible
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and dig [a pit] for your friend.
- Darby Bible
Yes, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
- Webster's Bible
Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
- World English Bible
Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.
- Youngs Literal Bible
Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, and dig a pit for your friend.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
- King James Version
"You would even cast {lots} for the orphans And barter over your friend.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Yea, ye would cast `lots' upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.
- American Standard Version (1901)
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.
- Basic English Bible
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and dig [a pit] for your friend.
- Darby Bible
Yes, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
- Webster's Bible
Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
- World English Bible
Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.
- Youngs Literal Bible
Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, and dig a pit for your friend.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Bible commentary
Wesley's Notes for Job 6:27
6:27 Overwhelm - You load with censures and calumnies. Desolate - Me who am deprived of all my children, my estate, and my friends. I spoke all I thought, as to my friends, and you thence occasion to cast me down.