The Pulpit Commentary on Job 6:27

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

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.

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