Job 6:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.

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  • Job 22:9 : 9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
  • Job 24:3 : 3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
  • Job 24:9 : 9 They snatch the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge from the poor.
  • Ps 7:15 : 15 He made a pit, and dug it, and has fallen into the ditch he made.
  • Joel 3:3 : 3 And they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy in exchange for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine that they might drink.
  • Nah 3:10 : 10 Yet she was carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And through covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; their judgment is long overdue, and their destruction does not slumber.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
  • Exod 22:22-24 : 22 You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. 23 If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry; 24 and my wrath shall grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; 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 dug a pit before me; into the midst of it they have fallen themselves. Selah.
  • Ps 82:3 : 3 Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy.
  • Prov 23:10-11 : 10 Do not remove the ancient landmark, and do not enter the fields of the fatherless: 11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.
  • Jer 18:20 : 20 Shall evil be repaid for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before you to speak good for them, and to turn away your wrath from them.
  • Jer 18:22 : 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have dug a pit to take me, and hidden snares for my feet.
  • Ezek 22:7 : 7 In you they have treated father and mother with contempt: in your midst they have dealt oppressively with the stranger: in you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
  • Job 29:12 : 12 Because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless, and the one who had no helper.
  • Job 31:17 : 17 Or have eaten my portion alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it;
  • Job 31:21 : 21 If I have lifted my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 22:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

    10Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden fear troubles you;

  • Ps 10:14
    76%

    14You have seen it; for You behold mischief and spite, to repay it with Your hand; the poor commits himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

  • Job 6:26
    75%

    26Do you imagine to reprove words and the speeches of one who is desperate, which are as wind?

  • Ezek 22:7
    75%

    7In you they have treated father and mother with contempt: in your midst they have dealt oppressively with the stranger: in you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

  • Ps 94:6
    75%

    6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

  • Isa 10:2
    75%

    2To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

  • Job 36:17
    74%

    17But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

  • Job 24:9
    74%

    9They snatch the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge from the poor.

  • Prov 6:1-3
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    74%

    1My son, if you become surety for your friend, if you have shaken hands with a stranger,

    2You are snared by the words of your mouth, you are taken by the words of your mouth.

    3Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when you have come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself, and make sure your friend.

  • Jer 5:28
    73%

    28They have grown fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy they do not judge.

  • Amos 8:4
    73%

    4Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail,

  • Job 6:14
    73%

    14To him who is afflicted, pity should be shown by his friend; yet he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

  • Ps 58:2
    73%

    2Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

  • Amos 5:11
    73%

    11Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

  • Job 24:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3They drive away the donkey 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
    72%

    10Do not remove the ancient landmark, and do not enter the fields of the fatherless:

  • Job 22:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

    7You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

  • Isa 3:6
    72%

    6When a man shall take hold of his brother in his father’s house, saying, You have clothing, be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand:

  • Deut 27:19
    72%

    19Cursed be he who perverts the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Ps 7:15
    71%

    15He made a pit, and dug it, and has fallen into the ditch he made.

  • Amos 2:7
    71%

    7They 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 go in to the same maid, to profane My holy name:

  • Jer 7:6
    71%

    6If you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your harm;

  • Prov 17:18
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    18A man lacking understanding shakes hands in a pledge, and becomes surety for his friend.

  • Exod 22:22
    71%

    22You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

  • Job 10:3
    71%

    3Is it good to You that You should oppress, that You should despise the work of Your hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

  • Job 13:26
    71%

    26For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

  • Exod 23:6
    71%

    6You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his dispute.

  • Job 14:3
    71%

    3And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?

  • Isa 29:21
    71%

    21That make a man an offender by a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.

  • Prov 26:27
    71%

    27Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone, it will roll back on him.

  • Deut 24:17
    71%

    17You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as a pledge:

  • Prov 22:16
    71%

    16He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.

  • Job 31:17
    71%

    17Or have eaten my portion alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it;

  • Job 13:9
    71%

    9Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you so mock him?

  • Jer 6:21
    71%

    21Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.

  • Prov 19:7
    71%

    7All the brethren of the poor hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him? He pursues them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

  • Job 15:4
    71%

    4Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.

  • Job 31:21
    70%

    21If I have lifted my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate;

  • Isa 57:4
    70%

    4Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

  • Ps 82:3
    70%

    3Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy.

  • Job 35:8
    70%

    8Your wickedness may hurt a man like yourself; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.

  • Zech 7:10
    70%

    10And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you plot evil against his brother in your heart.

  • Ps 10:18
    70%

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

  • Amos 5:7
    70%

    7You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

  • Job 17:5
    70%

    5He that speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.