Job 6:27
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Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.
“You would cast lots (gamble) over the fatherless And bargain away your friend.
Yes, you would cast lots over the fatherless and bargain away your friend.
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless child and negotiate a price to sell your friend.
Would you even gamble over an orphan, barter away your friend?
I suppose you would even throw dice for an orphan or barter away your friend!
Why, you would sell an orphan or your own neighbor!
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and dig [a pit] for your friend.
You rush in upon the fatherless, and you endeavour to overthrow your friend.
Are you the kind of people who would gamble for orphans and sell out your own friends?
You would play a game to win a child who has no family. You would even sell your friends to become rich yourselves.
No doubt you would even cast lots for a fatherless child and barter away your friend!
You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.
You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.
You would even ·gamble [cast lots] for orphans and would ·trade away [sell] your friend.
Ye make your wrath to fall upon the fatherless, and dig a pit for your friend.
Would you also throw dice for an orphan? Would you buy and sell your friend?
You would even roll dice for orphan slaves and make yourselves rich off your closest friends!
No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless child and negotiate a price to sell your friend.
You would even throw lots for orphans. And you would trade away your friend.
Indeed, you would gamble to buy an orphan; and barter to buy your friend!
Ye also overwhelm the fatherless and dig a pit before your friend.
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
You would even cast lots for the orphans And bargain over your friend.
Even over the orphan you would cast the lot, and you would bargain over your friend.
That would be like injuring a helpless orphan, or selling a friend.
“Confront me with the truth and I’ll shut up, show me where I’ve gone off the track. Honest words never hurt anyone, but what’s the point of all this pious bluster? You pretend to tell me what’s wrong with my life, but treat my words of anguish as so much hot air. Are people mere things to you? Are friends just items of profit and loss?
Yes, you cast lots for the fatherless, and you bargain over your friend.
Would you also throw dice for an orphan? Would you buy and sell your friend?
You would even cast lots for the orphan, and would barter over your friend!
You would even cast lots for the orphans, And barter over your friend.
“You would even cast lots for the orphans And barter over your friend.
You would even cast lots for the fatherless and sell your friend at a bargain price.
You would even gamble for orphans and would trade away your friend.
Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend.
You would even cast lots for those whose fathers have died. You would even trade away your closest friend.
You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.
You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.
Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, And you undermine your friend.
You would even draw names over those who have no father, and make trades over your friend.
You would even send an orphan into slavery or sell a friend.
You would even cast lots over the orphan, and bargain over your friend.
You would even cast lots over the orphan, and bargain over your friend.
You would even cast lots over the orphan, and bargain over your friend.
You would even cast lots over the orphan and bargain over your friend.
Yea, ye cast lots for the yatom, and over your friend ye barter.
You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.
You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.
Would you cast lots for an orphan, and barter over your friend?
Yes, it seems you’d have no qualms about sending an orphan into slavery or selling out a friend.
Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
Ye fall in on a fatherless child, and endeavour to pervert your friend.
Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.
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