Job 22:6
For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
Majority Standard Bible
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 not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
7You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,
Cross References
Exodus 22:26If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
Deuteronomy 24:10When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
Job 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
Job 29:12because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
Job 31:20if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,
Ezekiel 18:12He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.
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 →