Job 6:27
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Job 6:27 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Job 6:27 is a verse from the book of Job in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. ye overwhelm: Heb. ye cause to fall upon" Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Job 6:27 — KJV
“Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. ye overwhelm: Heb. ye cause to fall upon”
— Job 6:27 (KJV)
Job 6:27 in Context — About the Book of Job
Job is the Bible's deepest wrestle with undeserved suffering. A blameless man loses everything, sits in ashes, and refuses easy answers — from his friends or himself. God answers from the whirlwind not with explanations but with Himself, and Job's fortunes are restored double.
Cross-References for Job 6:27
“And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled. be lost: Heb. fall”
Shares key themes with Job 6:27: yea, heb, cause
“He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. He made a pit: Heb. He hath digged a pit”
Shares key themes with Job 6:27: dig, pit, heb
“Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Yea...: Heb. Yea, because, etc.”
Shares key themes with Job 6:27: yea, heb, cause
“And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses. seek...: Heb. roll himself upon us”
Shares key themes with Job 6:27: heb, cause, fall
“And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;”
Shares key themes with Job 6:27: dig, pit, fall
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