Job 6:27
You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.
BSB
ASV
Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.
KJV
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
Yea ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye strive to overthrow your friend. For he shews what great weakness he considers himself to be of, who calls himself 'fatherless.' But because charity even when wounded cannot quit love, he at once complains that they would have him overthrown, and yet witnesses that he is their friend. Whose words, as we have often said already, in such wise specially apply to himself, that yet by them, in the Spirit of Prophecy, we have at the same time set forth the sentiment of the faithful People, in the voice of the Church Universal.
UMBREIT from the Syriac, and answering to his interpretation of the first clause, has, "Would you be indignant against your friend?" The Hebrew in Job 41:6, means to "feast upon." As the first clause asks, "Would you catch him in a net?" so this follows up the image, "And would you next feast upon him, and his miseries?" So the Septuagint.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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James 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.
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Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?
Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of…
Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
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Psalms 7:15He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
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As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.
He who digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.