Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Even over [the] orphan you would cast the lot, and you would bargain over 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.
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.
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 intend to reprove [my] words and [consider the] words of a desperate [man] as wind? 27 Even over [the] orphan you would cast the lot, and you would bargain over your friend. 28 "{Therefore} be prepared, turn to me, and I surely will not lie to your face.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 22:9
You have sent widows away empty-handed, and [the] arms of orphans were crushed.
Job 24:3
They drive away [the] donkey of orphans; they take [the] widow's ox as a pledge.
Job 24:9
"They snatch [the] orphan from [the] breast, and they take a pledge against [the] needy.
Joel 3:3
For my people they cast lots, and {they traded} the male child for the prostitute, and the female child they sold for wine and they drank [it].
Nahum 3:10
Yet she went into captivity as an exile; her children were dashed to pieces at the head of [the] streets; they cast lots for all of her nobles; all of her dignitaries were bound with chains.
Exodus 22:22-24
" 'You will not afflict any widow or orphan.
Job 29:12
because I saved [the] needy who cried for help, and [I saved] [the] orphan for whom [there was] no helper.
Job 31:17
or I have eaten my morsel {alone}, and [the] orphan has not eaten from it
Job 31:21
if I have raised my hand against an orphan because I saw my supporters at the gate,
Psalm 7:15
He makes a pit and digs it out, then falls in [the] trap he has made.
Psalm 57:6
They have set a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me; they have fallen into the midst of it. Selah
Psalm 82:3
Judge [on behalf of the] helpless and [the] orphan; provide justice [to the] afflicted and [the] poor.
Proverbs 23:10-11
Do not remove an ancient boundary marker, and on the fields of orphans do not encroach;
Jeremiah 18:20
Should good be repaid in place of evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember my standing {before you} to speak good for them, to avert your wrath from them.
Jeremiah 18:22
Let a cry for help be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring upon them [the] raiding band, for they have dug a pit to catch me, and they have fixed secretly a trap for my feet.
Ezekiel 22:7
They have treated father and mother with contempt in you; {they violated} the alien with extortion; in the midst of you they mistreated [the] orphan and widow.
Malachi 3:5
"Then I will approach you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers, and against those who swear {falsely}, and against the oppressors of [the] hired worker [with his] wages, [the] widow and [the] orphan, and {the abusers of} [the] alien, and [yet] do not fear me," says Yahweh of hosts.
James 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unstained by the world.
2 Peter 2:3
And in greediness they will exploit you with false words, whose condemnation [from] long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.