Job 6:27

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Yea, ye would cast [lots] upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Job 22:9 : 9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 24:3 : 3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Job 24:9 : 9 There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;
Ps 7:15 : 15 He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Joel 3:3 : 3 and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
Nah 3:10 : 10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity; her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.
Mal 3:5 : 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 the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner [from his right], and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Exod 22:22-24 : 22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. 23 If thou afflict them at all, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; 24 and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Ps 57:6 : 6 They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down: They have digged a pit before me; They are fallen into the midst thereof themselves. {H5542}
Ps 82:3 : 3 Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
Prov 23:10-11 : 10 Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless: 11 For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee.
Jer 18:20 : 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.
Jer 18:22 : 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.
Ezek 22:7 : 7 In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Job 29:12 : 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.
Job 31:17 : 17 Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof
Job 31:21 : 21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:

Similar Verses (AI)

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Job 22:9-10
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9Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
10Therefore snares are round about thee, And sudden fear troubleth thee,
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14Thou hast seen [it]; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: The helpless committeth [himself] unto thee; Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.
Job 6:26
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26Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?
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7In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
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6They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.
Isa 10:2
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2to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Job 36:17
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17But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold [on thee].
Job 24:9
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9There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;
Prov 6:1-3
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1My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor, If thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger;
2Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, Thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
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28They are waxed fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
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4Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
Job 6:14
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14To him that is ready to faint kindness [should be showed] from his friend; Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
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11Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.
Job 24:3-4
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72%
3They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Prov 23:10
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10Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Job 22:6-7
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6For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, And stripped the naked of their clothing.
7Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, And thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
Isa 3:6
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6When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, [saying], Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand;
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19Cursed be he that wresteth the justice [due] to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Ps 7:15
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15He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Amos 2:7
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Jer 7:6
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Prov 17:18
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18A man void of understanding striketh hands, And becometh surety in the presence of his neighbor.
Exod 22:22
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22Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
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Prov 26:27
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Deut 24:17
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16He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [gain], [And] he that giveth to the rich, [shall come] only to want.
Job 31:17
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17Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof
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Prov 19:7
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Job 31:21
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21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:
Isa 57:4
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3Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
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Zech 7:10
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Ps 10:18
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18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, That man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.
Amos 5:7
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7Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,
Job 17:5
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5He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.