Job 6:27 - Exposition

Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless ; rather, on the fatherless would ye east lots (comp. Joel 3:3 ; Obadiah 1:11 ; Nahum 3:10 ). Job means to say they are so pitiless that they would cast lots for the children of an insolvent debtor condemned to become slaves at his death (see 2 Kings 4:1 ; Nehemiah 5:5 ). And ye dig a pit for your friend ; or, ye would make merchandise of your friend ' as in the Revised Version. Job does not speak of what his friends had done, but of what he deems them capable of doing.