Job 6:27
25 How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove?
26 Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.
28 But now, please look at me. Would I lie to your face?
29 Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.
- KJV
- Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
- WEB
- Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
- ASV
- Yea, ye would cast [lots] upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.
- DARBY
- Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and dig [a pit] for your friend.
- BLB
- Indeed, over the fatherless you⁺ make it fall, and you⁺ would trade away your⁺ friend.
- ÅB
- Endog om en farløs kunne dere kaste lodd og kjøpslå om deres venn.
- OTB
- Du ville til og med gamble over en foreldreløs
og forhandle bort din venn. - B1930
- Endog om en farløs kunde I kaste lodd og kjøpslå om eders venn.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 24:3
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
Read in contextJob 22:9
You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
Read in contextPsalms 7:15
He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
Read in contextJames 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Read in context2 Peter 2:3
In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
Read in contextJoel 3:3
They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
Read in contextJob 24:9
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
Read in contextNahum 3:10
Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.
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