Job 6:27 Cross References - LEB

²⁷ Even over the orphan you would cast the lot, and you would bargain over your friend.

²² " 'You will not afflict any widow or orphan. ²³ If you indeed afflict him, yes, if he cries out at all to me, I will certainly hear his cry of distress. ²⁴ And _⌊I will become angry_⌋,* and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children orphans.

⁹ You have sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of orphans were crushed.

³ They drive away the donkey of orphans; they take the widow's ox as a pledge.

⁹ "They* snatch the orphan from the breast, and they take a pledge against the needy.*

¹² because I saved the needy who cried for help, and I saved* the orphan for whom there was no helper.

¹⁷ or I have eaten my morsel _⌊alone_⌋,* and the orphan has not eaten from it

²¹ if I have raised my hand against an orphan because I saw my supporters at the gate,

¹⁵ He makes a pit and digs it out, then falls in the trap he has made.

⁶ They have set a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me; they have fallen into the midst of it. Selah

³ Judge on behalf of the helpless and the orphan; provide justice to the afflicted and the poor.

¹⁰ Do not remove an ancient boundary marker, and on the fields of orphans do not encroach; ¹¹ For their redeemer is strong, he himself will plead their cause against you.

²⁰ Should good be repaid in place of evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember my standing _⌊before you_⌋* to speak good for them, to avert your wrath from them.

²² Let a cry for help be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring upon them the raiding band, for they have dug a pit to catch me, and they have fixed secretly a trap for my feet.

⁷ They have treated father and mother with contempt in you; _⌊they violated_⌋* the alien with* extortion; in the midst of you they mistreated the orphan and widow.

³ For my people they cast lots,* and _⌊they traded_⌋* the male child for the prostitute, and the female child they sold for wine and they drank it.

¹⁰ Yet she went into captivity as an exile; her children were dashed to pieces at the head of the streets; they cast lots for all of her nobles; all of her dignitaries were bound with chains.

⁵ "Then I will approach you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers, and against those who swear _⌊falsely_⌋,* and against the oppressors of the hired worker with his wages, the widow and the orphan, and _⌊the abusers of_⌋* the alien,* and yet do not fear me," says Yahweh of hosts.

²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our* God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

³ And in greediness they will exploit you with false words, whose condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.