Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 6:27

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

Your words are not onely vain and useless and uncomfortable to me, but also grievous and pernicious.

Heb. You rush or throw your selves upon him. For words in Hiphil are oft put reciprocally, as Hebricians know. You fall upon him with all your might, and say all that you can devise to charge and grieve him. A metaphor from wild beasts that fall upon their prey to hold it fast and devour it. You load him with censures and calumnies.

Or the desolate, i. e. me who am deprived of all my dear children and of all my estate forsaken by my friends and by my heavenly father: Which should have procured me your pity rather than your censure.

Or you feed or feast (for so this Hebrew word is oft used as, 2 Sam. 3 35. 2 Kings 6▪ 23. Iob 40. 15.) upon your friend, i. e. You insult and triumph over me, whom sometimes you owned for your friend.

Marginal references: Heb ye c[illegible: 1+ letters]st to fall upon.