Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, And you undermine your friend.

你们想为孤儿拈阄，以朋友当货物。

你们甚至为孤儿抽签，把朋友当货物。

你们甚至为孤儿抽签，把朋友当货物。

你们甚至抽签得孤儿，把朋友当货物卖掉。

你们竟抽签得孤儿，拿朋友当货物。

你們想為孤兒拈鬮，以朋友當貨物。

你們甚至為孤兒抽籤，把朋友當貨物。

你們甚至為孤兒抽籤，把朋友當貨物。

你們甚至抽籤得孤兒，把朋友當貨物賣掉。

你們竟抽籤得孤兒，拿朋友當貨物。

你們竟要拈鬮得孤兒，竟要拿朋友當貨物啊！

爾欲為孤子而探鬮、以友朋為貿易、

爾撻煢獨、坑友朋。

爾竟撒網以絆孤兒、或作爾欺壓孤兒掘坎以陷友朋、

You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.

You would even cast lots for those whose fathers have died. You would even trade away your closest friend.

You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.

You would even send an orphan into slavery or sell a friend.

No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless child and negotiate a price to sell your friend.

You would even cast lots for the orphans, And barter over your friend.

Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.

No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless child and negotiate a price to sell your friend.

Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig[ a pit] for your friend.

Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend.

Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

They have cast lots for My people, Have given a boy as payment for a harlot, And sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; They take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

You have sent widows away empty, And the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

Yet she was carried away, She went into captivity; Her young children also were dashed to pieces At the head of every street; They cast lots for her honorable men, And all her great men were bound in chains.

By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.

“ Some snatch the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge from the poor.

He made a pit and dug it out, And has fallen into the ditch which he made.

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

Let a cry be heard from their houses, When You bring a troop suddenly upon them; For they have dug a pit to take me, And hidden snares for my feet.

Or eaten my morsel by myself, So that the fatherless could not eat of it

And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness Against sorcerers, Against adulterers, Against perjurers, Against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, And against those who turn away an alien— Because they do not fear Me,” Says the Lord of hosts.

If I have raised my hand against the fatherless, When I saw I had help in the gate;

Shall evil be repaid for good? For they have dug a pit for my life. Remember that I stood before You To speak good for them, To turn away Your wrath from them.

Defend the poor and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and needy.

In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the stranger; in you they have mistreated the fatherless and the widow.

“ You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all to Me, I will surely hear their cry;and My wrath will become hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Because I delivered the poor who cried out, The fatherless and the one who had no helper.

They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down; They have dug a pit before me; Into the midst of it they themselves have fallen. Selah

Do not remove the ancient landmark, Nor enter the fields of the fatherless;For their Redeemer is mighty; He will plead their cause against you.