Exodus 22:26
If you require your neighbor's cloak as security for a loan, you must return it to him by sunset,
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Deuteronomy 24:10If you lend anything to someone, don't go into their house to take some kind of security.
Job 22:6For no reason at all you took your brother's clothing as a security for a debt, and left them stripped naked.
Job 24:9Fatherless children are snatched from their mother's breasts, taking the babies of the poor as security for a debt.
Psalms 10:14But you do see the trouble and grief they cause. Take it into your own hands. The helpless trust in you; you defend the orphans.
Proverbs 20:16If someone guarantees a stranger's debt with their cloak, be sure to take it! Make sure you have whatever is pledged to foreigners!
Ezekiel 18:7He doesn't exploit anyone. He gives back what a debtor has given him as security. He doesn't rob others. He feeds the hungry and clothes the naked.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 22:26-31
25 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. 26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: 27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious. 28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people. 29 Thou… Read the whole commentary →