Job 6:27 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Would you also throw dice for an orphan? Would you buy and sell your friend?(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

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.

DBY:

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

ERV:

Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

JPS:

Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, and dig a pit for your friend.

WBS:

Yes, 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.

YLT:

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

Job 6:27 Cross References

XREF:

Job 22:9 "You have sent widows away empty, And the strength of the orphans has been crushed.

Job 24:3 "They drive away the donkeys of the orphans; They take the widow's ox for a pledge.

Job 24:9 "Others snatch the orphan from the breast, And against the poor they take a pledge.

Joel 3:3 "They have also cast lots for My people, Traded a boy for a harlot And sold a girl for wine that they may drink.

Nahum 3:10 Yet she became an exile, She went into captivity; Also her small children were dashed to pieces At the head of every street; They cast lots for her honorable men, And all her great men were bound with fetters.

2 Peter 2:3 and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

6:27 Overwhelm - You load with censures and calumnies. Desolate - Me who am deprived of all my children, my estate, and my friends. I spoke all I thought, as to my friends, and you thence occasion to cast me down.

MHC:

6:14-30 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, Heb 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 cease from man. Let us put all our confidence in the Rock of ages, not in broken reeds; in the Fountain of life, not in broken cisterns. The application is very close; for now ye are nothing. It were well for us, if we had always such convictions of the vanity of the creature, as we have had, or shall have, on a sick-bed, a death-bed, or in trouble of conscience. Job upbraids his friends with their hard usage. Though in want, he desired no more from them than a good look and a good word. It often happens that, even when we expect little from man, we have less; but from God, even when we expect much, we have more. Though Job differed from them, yet he was ready to yield as soon as it was made to appear that he was in error. Though Job had been in fault, yet they ought not to have given him such hard usage. His righteousness he holds fast, and will not let it go. He felt that there had not been such iniquity in him as they supposed. But it is best to commit our characters to Him who keeps our souls; in the great day every upright believer shall have praise of God.

CONC:

Anger Bargain Barter Cast Cause Child Creditors Dead Dig Fall Fatherless Friend Lots Merchandise Orphans Overwhelm Pit Profit Strange Truly Yea Yes

Anger Bargain Barter Cast Cause Child Creditors Dead Dig Fall Fatherless Friend Lots Merchandise Orphans Overwhelm Pit Profit Strange

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