Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Indeed, you would gamble to buy an orphan; and barter to buy 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.
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 Did you intend your words to reprove, even though the speech of a desperate person is just wind? 27 Indeed, you would gamble to buy an orphan; and barter to buy your friend! 28 Now be willing to face me, and I won't lie to your face.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 22:9
You sent away widows empty-handed, and broke the outstretched arms of orphans.
Job 24:3
They drive away the orphan's donkey; they take the ox of the widow as security for a loan;
Job 24:9
"The fatherless are torn from the breast; the poor are taken away as security for a loan.
Joel 3:3
They cast lots for my people they sold a young boy in exchange for a prostitute, and a girl for wine, so they could drink."
Nahum 3:10
But she, too, was exiled she went into captivity! Her young children were dashed to pieces at every crossroad of their streets, and her famous citizens were sold by lottery, while all of her aristocrats were put in chains.
Exodus 22:22-24
"You are not to mistreat any widow or orphan.
Job 29:12
because I delivered the poor who were crying for help, along with orphans who had no one to help them.
Job 31:17
if I ate my meals by myself without feeding orphans,
Job 31:21
if I've raised my hand against an orphan when I thought I would against him in court,
Psalm 7:15
He digs a pit, even excavates it; then he fell into the hole that he had made.
Psalm 57:6
They have set a snare for my feet, which makes me depressed. They dug a pit in front of me, but they are the ones who fell into it! Interlude
Psalm 82:3
"Defend the poor and the fatherless. Vindicate the afflicted and the poor.
Proverbs 23:10-11
Don't move ancient boundaries or invade fields belonging to orphans;
Jeremiah 18:20
Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit to take my life. Remember! I stood before you and spoke good on their behalf in order to turn your wrath away from them.
Jeremiah 18:22
Let a cry be heard from their houses because you have brought a raiding party against them suddenly. For they have dug a pit to capture me and have set traps for my feet.
Ezekiel 22:7
They've treated mothers and fathers among you with contempt. They've oppressed the foreigner among you. They've maltreated the orphan and the widow among you.
Malachi 3:5
"I'll come near to you for judgment. I'll be a witness, quick to speak against sorcerers, against adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who defraud the laborer of his wage, against those who defraud the widow and the orphan, against those who deprive the alien of justice, and against those who don't fear me," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.
James 1:27
A religion that is pure and stainless according to God the Father is this: to take care of orphans and widows who are suffering, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
2 Peter 2:3
In their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. The ancient verdict against them is still in force, and their destruction is not delayed.