Job 22:6
For you have taken away the collateral of your brothers without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
In Context
5and not because of your many evil deeds and your infinite unfairness?
7You have not given water to the weary; you have taken bread away from the hungry.
Cross References
Exodus 22:26If you take a garment from your neighbor as a pledge, you shall return it to him again before the setting of the sun.
Deuteronomy 24:10When you require from your neighbor anything that he owes to you, you shall not enter into his house in order to take away the collateral.
Job 24:3They have driven away the donkey of orphans, and have taken the cow from the widow as collateral.
Job 29:12This was because I had freed the poor, who cried out, and the orphan, who had no helper.
Job 31:20if his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
Ezekiel 18:12who grieves the needy and the poor, who seizes with violence, who does not restore the collateral, and who lifts up his eyes to idols, committing abomination,
Matthew Henry on Job 22:6-15
Job Accused of Various Crimes. ( b. c. 1520.) 5 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? 6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. 7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry. 8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it. 9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. 10 Therefore snares are round about thee,… Read the whole commentary →