Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageThey are fat and glossy — their evil knows no limits. They won't champion the orphan's cause, they won't uphold justice, and they refuse to defend the rights of the poor.'
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GThey have grown fat and sleek; they overflow in wicked deeds. They do not plead the cause of the fatherless — to bring it to justice — nor do they defend the right of the needy.'
KJV
King James VersionThey are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleThey have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
Footnotes
Justice for the *yatom* (fatherless/orphan), the widow, and the *'evyon* (poor/needy) is the consistent litmus test of covenant faithfulness across the Hebrew prophets (Isaiah 1:17; Amos 2:6–7; Micah 6:8). Their neglect here signals not moral lapse but wholesale covenant abandonment. FOG preserves 'fatherless' for *yatom* to retain the family-structure dimension; FOG Message uses 'orphan' for modern clarity.