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 intend to reprove my words,
When the words of one in despair belong to the wind?
27 “You would even cast lots for the orphans
And barter over your friend.
28 “Now please look at me,
And see if I lie to your face.

Cross References

Job 22:9

“You have sent widows away empty,
And the strength of the orphans has been crushed.

Job 24:3

“They drive away the donkeys of the orphans;
They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

Job 24:9

Others snatch the orphan from the breast,
And against the poor they take a pledge.

Joel 3:3

“They have also cast lots for My people,
Traded a boy for a harlot
And sold a girl for wine that they may drink.

Nahum 3:10

Yet she became an exile,
She went into captivity;
Also her small children were dashed to pieces
At the head of every street;
They cast lots for her honorable men,
And all her great men were bound with fetters.

Exodus 22:22-24

You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.

Job 29:12

Because I delivered the poor who cried for help,
And the orphan who had no helper.

Job 31:17

Or have eaten my morsel alone,
And the orphan has not shared it

Job 31:21

If I have lifted up my hand against the orphan,
Because I saw I had support in the gate,

Psalm 7:15

He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,
And has fallen into the hole which he made.

Psalm 57:6

They have prepared a net for my steps;
My soul is bowed down;
They dug a pit before me;
They themselves have fallen into the midst of it. Selah.

Psalm 82:3

Vindicate the weak and fatherless;
Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

Proverbs 23:10-11

Do not move the ancient boundary
Or go into the fields of the fatherless,

Jeremiah 18:20

Should good be repaid with evil?
For they have dug a pit for me.
Remember how I stood before You
To speak good on their behalf,
So as to turn away Your wrath from them.

Jeremiah 18:22

May an outcry be heard from their houses,
When You suddenly bring raiders upon them;
For they have dug a pit to capture me
And hidden snares for my feet.

Ezekiel 22:7

They have treated father and mother lightly within you. The alien they have oppressed in your midst; the fatherless and the widow they have wronged in you.

Malachi 3:5

“Then I will draw near to 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 those who oppress the wage earner in his wages, the widow and the orphan, and those who turn aside the alien and do not fear Me,” says the Lord of hosts.

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

2 Peter 2:3

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

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