Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“You would even cast lots for the orphans
And barter over your friend.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless child
and negotiate a price to sell your friend.

International Standard Version

Indeed, you would gamble to buy an orphan; and barter to buy your friend!

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“You would cast lots (gamble) over the fatherless
And bargain away your friend.

Bible in Basic English

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.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

But ye will cause the orphans to fall, and ye will dig for your friend.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Even over [the] orphan you would cast the lot, and you would bargain over your friend.

Modern King James verseion

Yea, you cause anger to fall on the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Ye fall upon the fatherless, and go about to overthrow your own friend.

NET Bible

Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Surely, the fatherless, ye would assail, and make merchandise of your friend!

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
יתום 
Yathowm 
Usage: 42

and ye dig
כּרה 
Karah 
Usage: 16

Context Readings

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

26 Are ye not thinking up words of reproof and throw to the wind words that are lost? 27 “You would even cast lots for the orphans
And barter over your friend.
28 Now, therefore, if ye desire, look upon me and see if I shall lie in your presence.

Cross References

Job 22:9

Thou hast sent the widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Job 24:3

They drive away the ass of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

Job 24:9

They pluck the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge of the poor.

Joel 3:3

And they have cast lots for my people and have given a boy for a harlot and sold a girl for wine that they might drink.

Nahum 3:10

Yet she was 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 nobles were bound in chains.

Exodus 22:22-24

Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

Job 29:12

because I delivered the poor that cried and the fatherless who had no one to help him.

Job 31:17

or have eaten my morsel alone and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;

Job 31:21

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw that they would all help me in the gate;

Psalm 7:15

He made a pit and deepened it and shall fall into the ditch which he made.

Psalm 57:6

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they have dug a pit before me, into the midst of which they are fallen themselves. Selah.

Psalm 82:3

Do right concerning the poor and fatherless; do justice to the poor and destitute.

Proverbs 23:10-11

Do not remove the old landmark, and do not enter into the inheritance of the fatherless:

Jeremiah 18:20

Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them and to turn away thy wrath from them.

Jeremiah 18:22

Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hid snares for my feet.

Ezekiel 22:7

In thee they have despised father and mother; in the midst of thee they have dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee they have vexed the fatherless and the widow.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near unto you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against false swearers and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, said the LORD of the hosts.

James 1:27

The pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep thyself unspotted from this world.

2 Peter 2:3

and in covetousness they shall make merchandise of you with feigned words, upon whom the condemnation from a long time ago does not delay, and their perdition does not sleep.

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