Job 6:27 KJV
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
Thou and Ye
- ye, your more than one
In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?
Matthew Henry
- Job reproves his friends as unkindIn his prosperity Job formed great expectations from his friends, but now was disappointed. This he compares to the failing of brooks in summer. Those who...
Thompson Chains
- Cruelty (1)See the chain from Genesis 49:5 · 2 links
- PitilessSee the chain from Job 24:9 · 5 links
Parallel Passages
- Job 8:2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).
Cross References
- Job 22:9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
- Job 24:3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
- Job 24:9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
- Psalms 7:15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
- Joel 3:3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
- Nahum 3:10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
- James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
- 2 Peter 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
- Exodus 22:22–24 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. …
- Job 29:12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
- Job 31:17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
- Job 31:21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
- Psalms 57:6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
- Psalms 82:3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
- Proverbs 23:10–11 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: …
- Jeremiah 18:20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
- Jeremiah 18:22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
- Ezekiel 22:7 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
- Malachi 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Topics
- Afflictions and adversities Unclassified scriptures relating to
- Job Complaints of, and replies by his three friends to
- Murmuring Job
- Orphan General scriptures concerning
Hebrew and Strong’s
- Yea, ye overwhelm אַף ʾap Affirmation תַּפִּילוּ tappîlû נָפַל Verb · hiphil imperfect, second person masculine plural
- the fatherless עַל ʿal Preposition יָתוֹם yātôm יָתוֹם Noun · masculine singular
- and ye dig וְתִכְרוּ wĕtikrû כָּרָה Verb · qal imperfect, second person masculine plural · with and
- for your friend עַל ʿal Preposition רֵיעֲכֶם rêʿăkem רֵעַ Noun · masculine singular construct · with suffix: second person masculine plural
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex, Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible · CC BY 4.0
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