Job 6:27

World English Bible (2000)

Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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, and they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
  • Job 24:9 : 9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
  • Ps 7:15 : 15 He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.
  • Joel 3:3 : 3 and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, 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 unstained by the world.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 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 perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Armies.
  • Exod 22:22-24 : 22 "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child. 23 If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry; 24 and my wrath will grow 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 dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.
  • Ps 82:3 : 3 "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
  • Prov 23:10-11 : 10 Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless: 11 for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.
  • Jer 18:20 : 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
  • Jer 18:22 : 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
  • Ezek 22:7 : 7 In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
  • Job 29:12 : 12 Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,
  • Job 31:17 : 17 or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
  • 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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    9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

    10Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

  • Ps 10:14
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    14But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

  • Job 6:26
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    26Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

  • Ezek 22:7
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    7In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

  • Ps 94:6
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    6They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

  • Job 36:17
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    17"But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

  • Job 24:9
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    9There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

  • Prov 6:1-3
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    1My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;

    2You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

    3Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.

  • Jer 5:28
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    28They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.

  • Amos 8:4
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    4Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

  • Job 6:14
    73%

    14"To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

  • Ps 58:2
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    2No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

  • Job 24:3-4
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    72%

    3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and 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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    10Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:

  • Job 22:6-7
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    6For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

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

  • Isa 3:6
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    6Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, "You have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand."

  • Deut 27:19
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    19'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Ps 7:15
    71%

    15He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

  • Amos 2:7
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    7They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

  • Jer 7:6
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    6if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

  • Prov 17:18
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    18A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.

  • Exod 22:22
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    22"You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

  • Job 10:3
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    3Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

  • Job 13:26
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    26For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

  • Exod 23:6
    71%

    6"You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

  • Job 14:3
    71%

    3Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

  • Isa 29:21
    71%

    21who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

  • Prov 26:27
    71%

    27Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

  • Deut 24:17
    71%

    17You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

  • Prov 22:16
    71%

    16Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

  • Job 31:17
    71%

    17or have eaten my morsel 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 deceives a man, will you deceive him?

  • Jer 6:21
    71%

    21Therefore thus says Yahweh, "Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend shall perish."

  • Prov 19:7
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    7All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

  • Job 15:4
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    4Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

  • Job 31:21
    70%

    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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    4Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth, and stick out your tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,

  • Ps 82:3
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    3"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

  • Job 35:8
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    8Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.

  • Zech 7:10
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    10Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'

  • Ps 10:18
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    18to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. For the Chief Musician. By David.

  • Amos 5:7
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    7You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

  • Job 17:5
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    5He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.