Job 22:6
For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Updated King James 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 not your wickedness great? and yours iniquities infinite?
7You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
Cross References
Exodus 22:26If you at all take your neighbour's raiment to pledge, you shall deliver it unto him by that the sun goes down:
Deuteronomy 24:10When you do lend your brother any thing, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
Job 24:3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Job 29:12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Job 31:20If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
Ezekiel 18:12Has oppressed the poor and needy, has spoiled by violence, 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 →