Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.

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.

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 For reproof -- do you reckon words? And for wind -- sayings of the desperate. 27 Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend. 28 And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do I lie?

Cross References

Job 22:9

Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.

Job 24:3

The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow,

Job 24:9

They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.

Joel 3:3

And for My people they do cast a lot, And they give the young man for an harlot, And the young woman have sold for wine, That they may drink.

Nahum 3:10

Even she doth become an exile, She hath gone into captivity, Even her sucklings are dashed to pieces At the top of all out-places, And for her honoured ones they cast a lot, And all her great ones have been bound in fetters.

Exodus 22:22-24

'Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict;

Job 29:12

For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.

Job 31:17

And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,

Job 31:21

If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in him the gate of my court,

Psalm 7:15

A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.

Psalm 57:6

A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.

Psalm 82:3

Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.

Proverbs 23:10-11

Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,

Jeremiah 18:20

Is evil recompensed instead of good, That they have dug a pit for my soul? Remember my standing before Thee to speak good of them, To turn back Thy wrath from them.

Jeremiah 18:22

A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet.

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee.

Malachi 3:5

And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

James 1:27

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.

2 Peter 2:3

and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.

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