Job 22:6
For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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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
5Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
7You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
Cross References
Exodus 22:26If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
Deuteronomy 24:10When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
Job 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
Job 29:12because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
Job 31:20if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;
Ezekiel 18:12has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed 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 →