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Job 6:27
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KJ21
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
ASV
Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.
AMP
“You would cast lots (gamble) over the fatherless And bargain away your friend.
AMPC
Yes, you would cast lots over the fatherless and bargain away your friend.
BRG
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
CSB
No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless child and negotiate a price to sell your friend.
CSBA
No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless child and negotiate a price to sell your friend.
CEB
Would you even gamble over an orphan, barter away your friend?
CJB
I suppose you would even throw dice for an orphan or barter away your friend!
CEV
Why, you would sell an orphan or your own neighbor!
DARBY
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and dig [a pit] for your friend.
DRA
You rush in upon the fatherless, and you endeavour to overthrow your friend.
ERV
Are you the kind of people who would gamble for orphans and sell out your own friends?
EASY
You would play a game to win a child who has no family. You would even sell your friends to become rich yourselves.
EHV
No doubt you would even cast lots for a fatherless child and barter away your friend!
ESV
You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.
ESVUK
You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.
EXB
You would even ·gamble [cast lots] for orphans and would ·trade away [sell] your friend.
GNV
Ye make your wrath to fall upon the fatherless, and dig a pit for your friend.
GW
Would you also throw dice for an orphan? Would you buy and sell your friend?
GNT
You would even roll dice for orphan slaves and make yourselves rich off your closest friends!
HCSB
No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless child and negotiate a price to sell your friend.
ICB
You would even throw lots for orphans. And you would trade away your friend.
ISV
Indeed, you would gamble to buy an orphan; and barter to buy your friend!
JUB
Ye also overwhelm the fatherless and dig a pit before your friend.
KJV
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
AKJV
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
LSB
You would even cast lots for the orphans And bargain over your friend.
LEB
Even over the orphan you would cast the lot, and you would bargain over your friend.
TLB
That would be like injuring a helpless orphan, or selling a friend.
MSG
“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?
MEV
Yes, you cast lots for the fatherless, and you bargain over your friend.
NOG
Would you also throw dice for an orphan? Would you buy and sell your friend?
NABRE
You would even cast lots for the orphan, and would barter over your friend!
NASB
You would even cast lots for the orphans, And barter over your friend.
NASB1995
“You would even cast lots for the orphans And barter over your friend.
NCB
You would even cast lots for the fatherless and sell your friend at a bargain price.
NCV
You would even gamble for orphans and would trade away your friend.
NET
Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend.
NIRV
You would even cast lots for those whose fathers have died. You would even trade away your closest friend.
NIV
You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.
NIVUK
You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.
NKJV
Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, And you undermine your friend.
NLV
You would even draw names over those who have no father, and make trades over your friend.
NLT
You would even send an orphan into slavery or sell a friend.
NRSVA
You would even cast lots over the orphan, and bargain over your friend.
NRSVACE
You would even cast lots over the orphan, and bargain over your friend.
NRSVCE
You would even cast lots over the orphan, and bargain over your friend.
NRSVUE
You would even cast lots over the orphan and bargain over your friend.
OJB
Yea, ye cast lots for the yatom, and over your friend ye barter.
RGT
“You make your wrath fall upon the fatherless, and dig a pit for your friend.
RSV
You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.
RSVCE
You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.
TLV
Would you cast lots for an orphan, and barter over your friend?
VOICE
Yes, it seems you’d have no qualms about sending an orphan into slavery or selling out a friend.
WEB
Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
WYC
Ye fall in on a fatherless child, and endeavour to pervert your friend.
YLT
Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.
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