Job 22:6

In 11 translations

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.the naked…: Heb. the clothes of the naked

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.

LSV

For you take a pledge of your brother for nothing, || And you strip off the garments of the naked.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

GNV

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

JPS

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

LXXE

And thou hast taken security of thy brethren for nothing, and hast taken away the clothing of the naked.

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WLC

כִּֽי־תַחְבֹּ֣ל אַחֶ֣יךָ חִנָּ֑ם וּבִגְדֵ֖י עֲרוּמִּ֣ים תַּפְשִֽׁיט׃

LXX-Br

Ἠνεχύραζες δὲ τοὺς ἀδελφούς σου διακενῆς, ἀμφίασιν δὲ γυμνῶν ἀφείλου.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Exodus 22:26If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
• Ezekiel 18:12He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.
• Ezekiel 18:16He 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 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
• Deuteronomy 24:10–18When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security. You are to stand outside while the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you. If he is a poor man, you must not go…
• Deuteronomy 24:6Do 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.
• Job 24:9–10The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt. Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
• Job 31:19–20if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak, if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,
• Amos 2:8They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.
• Ezekiel 18:7He 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.

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