Exodus 22:26
If you take your neighbour’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
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Deuteronomy 24:10When you lend your neighbour any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
Job 22:6For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job 24:9There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
Psalms 10:14But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
Proverbs 20:16Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.
Ezekiel 18:7and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
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 →