Tree of Life Version
Job 6:27
27Would you cast lots for an orphan, and barter over 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
25Honest words are painful, but what does your arguing prove? 26Do you intend to correct my words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind? Would you cast lots for an orphan, and barter over your friend? 28“Now be so kind as to look at me; I will not lie to your face. 29Relent, do not be unjust; reconsider, for my righteousness is in it.
Read all of Job 6Job 6:27 word by word
אַף־עַל־יָת֥וֹם תַּפִּ֑ילוּ וְ֝תִכְר֗וּ עַל־רֵֽיעֲכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 6:27
- Job 22:9You sent widows away empty-handed and crushed the arms of orphans.
- Job 24:3They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
- Job 29:12for I saved the poor who cried for help, and the orphan who had no one to help him;
- Job 31:17if I ate my morsel of bread myself, without letting an orphan eat of it
- Exodus 22:22If you mistreat them in any way, and they cry out to Me, I will surely hear their cry.
- Psalms 82:3Give justice to the poor and fatherless. Be just to the afflicted and destitute.
- Proverbs 23:10Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or encroach on fields of the fatherless,
- Ezekiel 22:7Father 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.
- Malachi 3:5“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.
- James 1:27Pure 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.
- Psalms 7:15Look! The one pregnant with trouble conceives mischief and brings forth deceit.
- Psalms 57:6Be exalted, O God, above the heavens. Let Your glory be over all the earth!
- Jeremiah 18:20Will 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.
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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