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Job 22:6

For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

World English Bible

For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

American Standard Version

For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, And stripped the naked of their clothing.

Geneva Bible 1599

For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.

Darby Translation

For thou hast taken a pledge of thy brother for nought, and stripped off the clothing of the naked.

Young's Literal Translation

For thou takest a pledge of thy brother for nought, And the garments of the naked Thou dost strip off.

Bible in Basic English

For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.

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Cross references

“For thou”

Exodus 22:26 Ezekiel 18:12 Ezekiel 18:16 Job 24:3 Deuteronomy 24:10–18 Ezekiel 18:7

Exodus 22:26 · BSB

If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,

Ezekiel 18:12 · BSB

He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.

Ezekiel 18:16 · BSB

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.

Job 24:3 · BSB

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

Deuteronomy 24:10–18 · BSB

When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.

Ezekiel 18:7 · BSB

He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.

“stripped, etc”

Job 24:10 Job 31:19 Job 31:20

Job 24:10 · BSB

Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

Job 31:19 · BSB

if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,

Job 31:20 · BSB

if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,

Also

Deuteronomy 24:6

Deuteronomy 24:6 · BSB

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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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,