Parallel Verses
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.
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
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 6:27
Verse Info
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
And
Phrases
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.