Job 6:27

Job accuses them of being so heartless they would cast lots for an orphan and barter away a friend. He charges them with cruelty that exploits the vulnerable.

Cross-references · 19

• 2 Pet 2:3In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
• Nah 3:10Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.
• Jas 1:27Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
• Joel 3:3They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
• Job 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
• Ps 7:15He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
• Job 22:9You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
• Job 24:9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
• Mal 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
• Ezek 22:7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
• Job 29:12because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
• Prov 23:10–11Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
• Jer 18:22Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.
• Ps 82:3Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
• Jer 18:20Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.
• Job 31:17if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—
• Ps 57:6They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah
• Exod 22:22–24You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.
• Job 31:21if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Hebrew word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.