Job 6:27

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

²⁶ “Do you intend to reprove my words,
When the words of one in despair belong to the wind?
²⁷ “You would even cast lots for the orphans
And barter over your friend.
²⁸ “Now please look at me,
And see if I lie to your face.

Cast Lots

Job

Lot

No

Job 22:9

“You have sent widows away empty,
And the strength of the orphans has been crushed.

Job 24:3

“They drive away the donkeys of the orphans;
They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

Job 24:9

“Others snatch the orphan from the breast,
And against the poor they take a pledge.

Joel 3:3

“They have also cast lots for My people,
Traded a boy for a harlot
And sold a girl for wine that they may drink.

Nahum 3:10

Yet she became an exile,
She went into captivity;
Also her small children were dashed to pieces
At the head of every street;
They cast lots for her honorable men,
And all her great men were bound with fetters.

Exodus 22:22-24

You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.

Job 29:12

Because I delivered the poor who cried for help,
And the orphan who had no helper.

Job 31:17

Or have eaten my morsel alone,
And the orphan has not shared it

Job 31:21

If I have lifted up my hand against the orphan,
Because I saw I had support in the gate,

Psalm 7:15

He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,
And has fallen into the hole which he made.

Psalm 57:6

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

Psalm 82:3

Vindicate the weak and fatherless;
Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

Proverbs 23:10-11

Do not move the ancient boundary
Or go into the fields of the fatherless,

Jeremiah 18:20

Should good be repaid with evil?
For they have dug a pit for me.
Remember how I stood before You
To speak good on their behalf,
So as to turn away Your wrath from them.

Jeremiah 18:22

May an outcry be heard from their houses,
When You suddenly bring raiders upon them;
For they have dug a pit to capture me
And hidden snares for my feet.

Ezekiel 22:7

They have treated father and mother lightly within you. The alien they have oppressed in your midst; the fatherless and the widow they have wronged in you.

Malachi 3:5

“Then I will draw near to 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 those who oppress the wage earner in his wages, the widow and the orphan, and those who turn aside the alien and do not fear Me,” says the Lord of hosts.

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

2 Peter 2:3

and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.