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Job 6:27

Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
Job 6:27 · King James Version

In other versions

  • Yea, ye would cast `lots' upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.

    ASV

  • Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.

    BBE

  • Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and dig [a pit] for your friend.

    DBY

  • Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.

    WEB

  • Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.

    YLT

  • Yea, all of you overwhelm the fatherless, and all of you dig a pit for your friend.

    ENG

  • Yes, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

    WBT

  • You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.

    BSB

In context

25How 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.

28Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.

29Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.

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