Job 6:27

Job 6:27 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
• New International Version (NIV)You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.
• English Standard Version (ESV)You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, And you undermine your friend.

Context of Job 6:27

25How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove? 26Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind? Yea, ye would castlotsupon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend. 28Now therefore be pleased to look upon me; For surely I shall not lie to your face. 29Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.

Job 6:27 word by word

אַף־עַל־יָת֥וֹם תַּפִּ֑ילוּ וְ֝תִכְר֗וּ עַל־רֵֽיעֲכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear

• castנָפַלnâphal · to fall: fallH5307
• fatherlessיָתוֹםyâthôm · orphanH3490
• friendרֵעַrêa‛ rêya‛ · neighborH7453

Cross-references for Job 6:27

• Job 22:9Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
• Job 24:3They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
• Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.
• Job 31:17Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof
• Exodus 22:22Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
• Psalms 82:3Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
• Proverbs 23:10Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
• Ezekiel 22:7In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
• Malachi 3:5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
• James 1:27Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
• Psalms 7:15He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made.
• Psalms 57:6They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down: They have digged a pit before me; They are fallen into the midst thereof themselves. [Selah
• Jeremiah 18:20Shall 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 wrath from them.

Commentaries on Job 6:27

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 27Ye overwhelm the fatherless - Ye see that I am as destitute as the most miserable orphan; would ye overwhelm such a one? and would you dig a pit for your friend - do ye lay wait for me, and endeavor to entangle me in my talk? I believe this to be the spirit of Job's words.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 27Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless - Job undoubtedly means that this should be applied to himself. He complains that they took advantage of his words, that they were disposed to pervert his meaning, and unkindly distorted what he said. The word rendered” fatherless” יתום yâthôm properly denotes an orphan; Exodus 22:22; Deuteronomy 10:18; Deuteronomy 14:29. But it is possible that it is not to be taken in this limited signification here. The word is still…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-30Verses 14-30 In his prosperity Job formed great expectations from his friends, but now was disappointed. This he compares to the failing of brooks in summer. Those who rest their expectations on the creature, will find it fail when it should help them; whereas those who make God their confidence, have help in the time of need, He 4:16. Those who make gold their hope, sooner or later will be ashamed of it, and of their confidence in it. It is our wisdom to…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 27even cast lots for an orphan: Job once protected orphans (31:17, 21). He used a common saying to show his counselors' lack of compassion for those who had no one to defend them (see 17:5).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2727. literally, "ye cause" (supply, "your anger") [Umbreit], a net, namely, of sophistry [Noyes and Schuttens], to fall upon the desolate (one bereft of help, like the fatherless orphan); and ye dig (a pit) for your friend--that is, try to ensnare him, to catch him in the use of unguarded language [Noyes]. (Psa 57:6); metaphor from hunters catching wild beasts in a pit covered with brushwood to conceal it. Umbreit from the Syriac, and answering to his…Read the comment

Topics related to Job 6:27

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Orphan

In the dictionaries

• Arguing
• Arrow
• Conceal
• Harden
• Sorrowful
• Terror
• Fatherless
• Job, Book of
• Papyrus

Commentaries on Job 6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings