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Job 6

Job 6:27 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Yea, ye πoverwhelm
naphal (Hebrew #5307)
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (X hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, X surely, throw down.
Pronounce: naw-fal'
Origin: a primitive root
the fatherless
yathowm (Hebrew #3490)
a bereaved person
KJV usage: fatherless (child), orphan.
Pronounce: yaw-thome'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be lonely
, and ye dig
karah (Hebrew #3738)
properly, to dig; figuratively, to plot; generally, to bore or open
KJV usage: dig, X make (a banquet), open.
Pronounce: kaw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root
a pit for your friend
rea` (Hebrew #7453)
from 7462; an associate (more or less close)
KJV usage: brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, X (an-)other.
Pronounce: ray'-ah
Origin: or reya2 {ray'-ah}
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cause to fall upon.

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Ministry on This Verse

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overwhelm.
Heb. cause to fall upon.
the fatherless.
Job 22:9• 9Widows hast thou sent empty away, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. (Job 22:9)
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Job 24:3,9• 3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge;
 9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor: (Job 24:3,9)
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Job 29:12• 12For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper. (Job 29:12)
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Job 31:17,21• 17Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,
 21If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate: (Job 31:17,21)
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Ex. 22:22‑24• 22Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
 23If thou afflict him in any way, if he cry at all unto me, I will certainly hear his cry;
 24and my anger shall burn, and I will slay you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. (Ex. 22:22‑24)
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Psa. 82:3• 3Judge the poor and the fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and the destitute; (Psa. 82:3)
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Prov. 23:10‑11• 10Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
 11for their redeemer is mighty; he will plead their cause against thee. (Prov. 23:10‑11)
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Ezek. 22:7• 7In thee have they made light of 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. (Ezek. 22:7)
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Mal. 3:5• 5And 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 hired servant in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 3:5)
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James 1:27• 27Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world. (James 1:27)
ye dig.
Psa. 7:15• 15He digged a pit, and hollowed it out, and is fallen into the hole that he made. (Psa. 7:15)
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Psa. 57:6• 6They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down: they have digged a pit before me; they are fallen into the midst thereof. Selah. (Psa. 57:6)
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Jer. 18:20,22• 20Shall 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.
 22Let 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 have hidden snares for my feet. (Jer. 18:20,22)
• There was a studied heartlessness about the cold words of Eliphaz that seems to furnish ground for the bitterness of Job’s charge. A little later it will be seen that they speak exactly as Job here accuses; he only anticipates their full meaning. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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