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Job 6:27 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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cause to fall upon.

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overwhelm.

Heb. cause to fall upon.

the fatherless.

Job 22:9• ⁹Thou hast sent widows away empty, 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• ¹²Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. (Job 29:12)

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Job 31:17,21• ¹⁷Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
²¹If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when 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 them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
²⁴And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill 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• ³Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. (Psa. 82:3)

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Prov. 23:10‑11• ¹⁰Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
¹¹For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee. (Prov. 23:10‑11)

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Ezek. 22:7• 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. (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 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. (Mal. 3:5)

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James 1:27• ²⁷Pure 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. (James 1:27)

ye dig.

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

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Psa. 57:6• ⁶They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. 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 that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and 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 hid 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.