As I read through the book of Job, I ran across an interesting verse:
"You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend".
Gambling for the orphan is quite a serious charge. Job makes it to his friends who challenge his righteousness. It is more like having an auction for an orphan and the category is the same as betraying a friend in an auction and not standing up for that friend. I do recall other verses in Job about the fatherless. Best estimates are that Job lived between Noah and Abraham and possibly in western Mesopotamia. That was before the law and before Israel became a nation. Wise people understood orphans required care and should not be treated as property.
"You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend".
Gambling for the orphan is quite a serious charge. Job makes it to his friends who challenge his righteousness. It is more like having an auction for an orphan and the category is the same as betraying a friend in an auction and not standing up for that friend. I do recall other verses in Job about the fatherless. Best estimates are that Job lived between Noah and Abraham and possibly in western Mesopotamia. That was before the law and before Israel became a nation. Wise people understood orphans required care and should not be treated as property.
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