Job 22:6
4 Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?
5 Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
7 You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,
8 while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
- KJV
- For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
- WEB
- For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
- ASV
- For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, And stripped the naked of their clothing.
- DARBY
- For thou hast taken a pledge of thy brother for nought, and stripped off the clothing of the naked.
- BLB
- For you take a pledge from your brothers needlessly, and the garments the naked you strip off.
- ÅB
- Du tok jo pant av dine brødre uten grunn og dro klærne av de nakne.
- OTB
- For du har tatt pant fra dine slektninger uten grunn
og kledd de nakne av deres klær. - B1930
- Du tok jo pant av dine brødre uten grunn og drog klærne av de nakne.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 22:26
If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
Read in contextEzekiel 18:12
He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.
Read in contextEzekiel 18:16
He does not oppress another, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 24:10–18
When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
Read in contextJob 24:3
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
Read in contextJob 24:9–10
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
Read in contextJob 31:19–20
if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,
Read in contextDeuteronomy 24:6
Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
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