Job 6:27

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

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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 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
  • Ps 7:15 : 15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
  • Joel 3:3 : 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.
  • Nah 3:10 : 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.
  • Jas 1:27 : 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 Pet 2:3 : 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.
  • 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 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.
  • Exod 22:22-24 : 22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. 23 If thou afflict them in any wise, 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 ste; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
  • Ps 82:3 : 3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
  • Prov 23:10-11 : 10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: 11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
  • Jer 18:20 : 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.
  • 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 stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
  • Job 29:12 : 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
  • Job 31:17 : 17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
  • Job 31:21 : 21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when 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;

  • Ps 10:14
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    14Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

  • Job 6:26
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    26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

  • Ezek 22:7
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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 stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

  • Ps 94:6
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    6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

  • Job 36:17
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    17But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.

  • Job 24:9
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    9They 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 be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

    2Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

    3Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

  • Jer 5:28
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    28They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

  • Amos 8:4
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    4Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

  • Job 6:14
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    14To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

  • Ps 58:2
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    2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens 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 wine of them.

  • Job 24:3-4
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    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 hide themselves together.

  • Prov 23:10
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    10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

  • Job 22:6-7
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    6For thou hast taken a pledge from 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 of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:

  • Deut 27:19
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    19Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Ps 7:15
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    15He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

  • Amos 2:7
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    7That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the se maid, to profane my holy ne:

  • Jer 7:6
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    6If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

  • Prov 17:18
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    18A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the esence of his friend.

  • Exod 22:22
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    22Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

  • Job 10:3
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    3Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

  • Job 13:26
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    26For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

  • Exod 23:6
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    6Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

  • Job 14:3
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    3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

  • Isa 29:21
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    21That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

  • Prov 26:27
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    27Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.

  • Deut 24:17
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    17Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

  • Prov 22:16
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    16He that opesseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

  • Job 31:17
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    17Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

  • Job 13:9
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    9Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

  • Jer 6:21
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    21Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.

  • Prov 19:7
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    7All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

  • Job 15:4
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    4Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

  • Job 31:21
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    21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

  • Isa 57:4
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    4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

  • Ps 82:3
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    3Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

  • Job 35:8
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    8Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

  • Zech 7:10
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    10And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

  • Ps 10:18
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    18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

  • Amos 5:7
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    7Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

  • Job 17:5
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    5He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.