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New American Standard Bible
Job 6:27
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No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless childand negotiate a price to sell your friend.
Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.
You would even gamble for orphans and would trade away your friend.
Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend.
"You would cast lots (gamble) over the fatherless And bargain away your friend.
Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.
Ye make your wrath to fall vpon the fatherlesse, and dig a pit for your friende.
You would even cast lots for the orphansAnd bargain over your friend.
You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.
Why, you would sell an orphan or your own neighbor!
I suppose you would even throw dice for an orphan or barter away your friend!
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and dig [a pit] for your friend.
Are you the kind of people who would gamble for orphans and sell out your own friends?
Behold, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you grieve your friend.
You would even roll dice for orphan slaves and make yourselves rich off your closest friends!
Even over the orphan you would cast the lot, and you would bargain over your friend.
Yea, you cause even an orphan to fall; and you bargain over your friend.
Ye fall vpon the fatherlesse, ad go aboute to ouerthrowe youre owne frende.
Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.
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.
Ye fall vpon the fatherlesse, and digge a pit to ouerthrowe your owne frende.
Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, and dig a pit for your friend.
Yea, ye ouerwhelme the fatherlesse, and you digge a pit for your friend.
Even because ye attack the fatherless, and insult your friend.
Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
Ye fallen in on a fadirles child, and enforsen to peruerte youre frend.
Yes, you would cast [lots] on the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.
Yes, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit] for your friend.
Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, And you undermine your friend.
You would even send an orphan into slavery or sell a friend.
You would even draw names over those who have no father, and make trades over your friend.
You would even cast lots over the orphan, and bargain over your friend.
Surely, the fatherless, ye would assail, and make merchandise of your friend!
You rush in upon the fatherless, and you endeavour to overthrow your friend.
You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.
Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.
"You would even cast lots for the orphans And barter over your friend.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
overwhelm: Heb. cause to fall upon
the fatherless: Job 22:9, Job 24:3, Job 24:9, Job 29:12, Job 31:17, Job 31:21, Exodus 22:22-24, Psalms 82:3, Proverbs 23:10, Proverbs 23:11, Ezekiel 22:7, Malachi 3:5, James 1:27
ye dig: Psalms 7:15, Psalms 57:6, Jeremiah 18:20, Jeremiah 18:22
Reciprocal: Psalms 143:4 - is my spirit
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless,.... Meaning himself; who was like a fatherless child, stripped of all his mercies, of his children, his substance, and his health; and was in a most miserable, helpless, and forlorn condition; and, moreover, deprived of the gracious presence and visible protection of his heavenly Father, being given up for a while into the hands of Satan; and now it was unkind and barbarous to overwhelm such a man, who was overwhelmed with overmuch sorrow already: or, "ye cause to fall upon the fatherless"; either their wrath and anger, as the Targum and many others d instead of doing him justice; or a wall, or any such thing, to crush him, as Aben Ezra; or a lot, as Simeon bar Tzemach; see Joel 3:3; or rather a net, or a snare to entrap him in, seeking to entangle him in talk, so Mr. Broughton, which agrees with what follows:
and ye dig [a pit] for your friend; contrive mischief against him; sought to bring him to ruin; and which is aggravated by his having been their old friend, with whom they lived in strict friendship, and had professed much unto, and still pretended to have respect for; the allusion is to digging of pits for the catching of wild beasts: some render it, "ye feast upon your friend" e; so the word is used in 2 Kings 6:23; this sense is taken notice of by Aben Ezra and Bar Tzemach; and then the meaning is, you rejoice at the misery of your friend; you mock him and that, and insult him in his distress, with which the Septuagint version agrees; which was cruel usage.
d אף "iram", Vatablus, Mercerus, Cocceius; so Jarchi and Sephorno. e תכרו "epulamini", Piscator; so Beza, Gussetius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless - Job undoubtedly means that this should be applied to himself. He complains that they took advantage of his words, that they were disposed to pervert his meaning, and unkindly distorted what he said. The word rendered” fatherless” יתום yâthôm properly denotes an orphan; Exodus 22:22; Deuteronomy 10:18; Deuteronomy 14:29. But it is possible that it is not to be taken in this limited signification here. The word is still retained in the Arabic language - the language spoken in the country where Job lived, - where the word יתום yâthôm means to be lonely, bereaved, etc. It may be that this idea occurs under the form of the word used here, that Job was lonely and bereaved; that he was as desolate and helpless as a fatherless child; and especially that they manifested a spirit like that of those who would oppress an orphan. The word “overwhelm” תפילוּ tapı̂ylû means properly, “ye fall upon;” that is, you deal with him violently. Or, it may mean here, in the Hiphil, “you cause to fall upon,” referring to a net, and meaning, that they sprung a net for the orphan. So Rosenmuller and Noyes understand it. To do this was, in Oriental countries, regarded as a crime of special enormity, and is often so spoken of in the Bible; see the notes at Isaiah 1:17.
And ye dig a pit for your friend - You act toward your friend as hunters do toward wild beasts. They dig a pit and cover it over with brushwood to conceal it, and the hunted animal, deceived, falls into it unawares. So you endeavor to entrap your friend. You lay a plan for it. You conceal your design. You contrive to drive him into the pit that you have made, and urge him on until you have caught him in the use of unguarded language, or driven him to vent expressions that cover him with confusion. Instead of throwing a mantle of charity over his frailties and infirmities, you make the most of every word, take it out of its proper connection, and attempt to overwhelm him in shame and disgrace. On the method of hunting in ancient times, see the notes at –Job 18:8-10.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 6:27. Ye overwhelm the fatherless — Ye see that I am as destitute as the most miserable orphan; would ye overwhelm such a one? and would you dig a pit for your friend - do ye lay wait for me, and endeavour to entangle me in my talk? I believe this to be the spirit of Job's words.
