Job 22:6
For you take a pledge of your brother for nothing, || And you strip off the garments of the naked.
Literal Standard 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
5Is your wickedness not abundant? And there is no end to your iniquities.
7You do not cause the weary to drink water, || And you withhold bread from the hungry.
Cross References
Exodus 22:26if you take the garment of your neighbor in pledge at all, you return it to him during the going in of the sun:
Deuteronomy 24:10When you lift up a debt of anything on your brother, you do not go into his house to obtain his pledge;
Job 24:3They lead away the donkey of the fatherless, || They take in pledge the ox of the widow,
Job 29:12For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, || And the fatherless who has no helper.
Job 31:20If his loins have not blessed me, || And from the fleece of my sheep || He does not warm himself,
Ezekiel 18:12He has oppressed the afflicted and needy, || He has taken away plunder violently, || He does not return a pledge, || And he has lifted up his eyes to the idols, || He has done 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 →