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 Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind? 27 “You would even cast lots for the orphans
And barter over your friend.
28 "But now, be pleased to look at me, for I will not lie to your face.

Cross References

Job 22:9

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

Job 24:3

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

Job 24:9

(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)

Joel 3:3

and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.

Nahum 3:10

Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity; her infants were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains.

Exodus 22:22-24

You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.

Job 29:12

because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.

Job 31:17

or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

Job 31:21

if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

Psalm 7:15

He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made.

Psalm 57:6

They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my way, but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah

Psalm 82:3

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

Proverbs 23:10-11

Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless,

Jeremiah 18:20

Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

Jeremiah 18:22

May a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring the plunderer suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to take me and laid snares for my feet.

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.

Malachi 3:5

"Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

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