Job 6:27
Old Testament • 6 words with Strong's data
"Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend."
Word-by-Word Analysis
נָפַל
nâphal
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
חָתַר
châthar
to force a passage, as by burglary; figuratively, with oars
בּוֹר
bôwr
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
Key Terms in This Verse
נָפַל nâphal
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
Study H5307 →Cross References
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bo...
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his...
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
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