Job 6:27

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Job 6:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible

25 How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove?

26 Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?

27 You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.

28 But now, please look at me. Would I lie to your face?

29 Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 22:9

You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

Job 24:3

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

Job 24:9

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

Job 29:12

because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.

Job 31:17

if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—

Job 31:21

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

Exodus 22:22

You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.

Exodus 22:23

If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.

Exodus 22:24

My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.

Psalms 82:3

Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.

Proverbs 23:10

Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

Proverbs 23:11

for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you.

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.

Malachi 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.

James 1:27

Pure 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.

Psalms 7:15

He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

Psalms 57:6

They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah

Jeremiah 18:20

Should 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.

Jeremiah 18:22

Let 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.