Christian Standard Bible
Job 6:27
27No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless child and negotiate a price to sell your friend.
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 painful honest words can be! But what does your rebuke prove? 26Do you think that you can disprove my words or that a despairing man’s words are mere wind? No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless child and negotiate a price to sell your friend. 28But now, please look at me; I will not lie to your face. 29Reconsider; don’t be unjust. Reconsider; my righteousness is still the issue.
Read all of Job 6Job 6:27 word by word
אַף־עַל־יָת֥וֹם תַּפִּ֑ילוּ וְ֝תִכְר֗וּ עַל־רֵֽיעֲכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 6:27
- Job 22:9You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
- Job 24:3They drive away the donkeys owned by the fatherless and take the widow’s ox as collateral.
- Job 29:12For I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.
- Job 31:17if I have eaten my few crumbs alone without letting the fatherless eat any of it —
- Exodus 22:22“You must not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.
- Psalms 82:3Provide justice for the needy and the fatherless; uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute.
- Proverbs 23:10Don’t move an ancient boundary marker, and don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
- Ezekiel 22:7Father and mother are treated with contempt, and the resident alien is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.
- Malachi 3:5“I will come to you in judgment, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless; and against those who deny justice to the resident alien. They do not fear me,” says the Lord of Armies.
- James 1:27Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
- Psalms 7:15He dug a pit and hollowed it out but fell into the hole he had made.
- Psalms 57:6They prepared a net for my steps; I was despondent. They dug a pit ahead of me, but they fell into it!Selah
- Jeremiah 18:20Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before you to speak good on their behalf, to turn your anger 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
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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
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