Job 6:27

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

²⁶ Do you think that you can disprove my words
or that a despairing man’s words are mere wind?
²⁷ No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless child
and negotiate a price to sell your friend. ²⁸ But now, please look at me;
would I lie to your face?

Cast Lots

Job

Lot

No

Job 22:9

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

Job 24:3

They drive away the donkeys owned by the fatherless
and take the widow’s ox as collateral.

Job 24:9

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast;
the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral.

Joel 3:3

They cast lots for My people;
they bartered a boy for a prostitute
and sold a girl for wine to drink.

Nahum 3:10

Yet she became an exile;
she went into captivity.
Her children were also dashed to pieces
at the head of every street.
They cast lots for her dignitaries,
and all her nobles were bound in chains.

Exodus 22:22-24

“You must not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.

Job 29:12

For I rescued the poor man who cried out for help,
and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.

Job 31:17

if I have eaten my few crumbs alone
without letting the fatherless eat any of it—

Job 31:21

if I ever cast my vote against a fatherless child
when I saw that I had support in the city gate,

Psalm 7:15

He dug a pit and hollowed it out
but fell into the hole he had made.

Psalm 57:6

They prepared a net for my steps;
I was despondent.
They dug a pit ahead of me,
but they fell into it!Selah

Psalm 82:3

Provide justice for the needy and the fatherless;
uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute.

Proverbs 23:10-11

Don’t move an ancient boundary marker,
and don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

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 anger 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.

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother are treated with contempt, and the foreign resident is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.

Malachi 3:5

“I will come to you in judgment, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the widow and the fatherless, and cheat the wage earner; and against those who deny justice to the foreigner. They do not fear Me,” says the Lord of Hosts.

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

2 Peter 2:3

They will exploit you in their greed with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.