Job 6:27 · KJV
“Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig {a pit} for your friend. {ye overwhelm: Heb. ye cause to fall upon}”
— Job 6:27
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, {which are} as wind?
Now therefore be content, look upon me; for {it is} evident unto you if I lie. {evident...: Heb. before your face}
Job 6 — Context
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, {which are} as wind?
27Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig {a pit} for your friend. {ye overwhelm: Heb. ye cause to fall upon}
28Now therefore be content, look upon me; for {it is} evident unto you if I lie. {evident...: Heb. before your face}
29Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness {is} in it. {in it: that is, in this matter}
Cross References
Job 22:9
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, {and} to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Job 24:9
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Psalms 7:15
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch {which} he made. {He made a pit: Heb. He hath digged a pit}
2 Peter 2:3
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
Nahum 3:10
Yet {was} she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Job 24:3
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Joel 3:3
And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.