Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
Holman Bible
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.
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
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 6:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
26 My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind. 27 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. 28 Now then, let your eyes be turned to me, for truly I will not say what is false to your face.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 22:9
You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.
Job 24:3
They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.
Job 24:9
The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.
Joel 3:3
And they have put the fate of my people to the decision of chance: giving a boy for the price of a loose woman and a girl for a drink of wine.
Nahum 3:10
But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.
Exodus 22:22-24
Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.
Job 29:12
For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.
Job 31:17
If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;
Job 31:21
If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;
Psalm 7:15
He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made
Psalm 57:6
They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)
Proverbs 23:10-11
Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;
Jeremiah 18:20
Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.
Jeremiah 18:22
Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.
Ezekiel 22:7
In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
James 1:27
The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.
2 Peter 2:3
And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.