New King James Version
Job 22:6
6For you have taken pledges from your brother for no reason, And stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job 22:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
- New International Version (NIV)You demanded security from your relatives for no reason; you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing and stripped the naked of their clothing.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“For example, you must have lent money to your friend and demanded clothing as security. Yes, you stripped him to the bone.
Context of Job 22:6
4“Is it because of your fear of Him that He corrects you, And enters into judgment with you? 5Is not your wickedness great, And your iniquity without end? For you have taken pledges from your brother for no reason, And stripped the naked of their clothing. 7You have not given the weary water to drink, And you have withheld bread from the hungry. 8But the mighty man possessed the land, And the honorable man dwelt in it.
Read all of Job 22Job 22:6 word by word
כִּֽי־תַחְבֹּ֣ל אַחֶ֣יךָ חִנָּ֑ם וּבִגְדֵ֖י עֲרוּמִּ֣ים תַּפְשִֽׁיט׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 22:6
- Job 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; They take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
- Exodus 22:26If you ever take your neighbor’s garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down.
- Deuteronomy 24:10“When you lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
- Ezekiel 18:7If he has not oppressed anyone, But has restored to the debtor his pledge; Has robbed no one by violence, But has given his bread to the hungry And covered the naked with clothing;
- Amos 2:8They lie down by every altar on clothes taken in pledge, And drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
- Job 24:10They cause the poor to go naked, without clothing; And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.
- Job 31:19If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, Or any poor man without covering;
Commentaries on Job 22:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Thou hast taken a pledge - Thou hast been vexatious in all thy doings, and hast exacted where nothing was due, so that through thee the poor have been unable to procure their necessary clothing.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought - The only evidence which Eliphaz seems to have had of this was, that this was a heinous sin, and that as Job seemed to be severely punished, it was to be “inferred” that he must have committed some such sin as this. No way of treating an unfortunate and a suffering man could be more unkind. A “pledge” is that which is given by a debtor to a creditor, for security for the payment of a debt, and…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-14Verses 5-14 Eliphaz brought heavy charges against Job, without reason for his accusations, except that Job was visited as he supposed God always visited every wicked man. He charges him with oppression, and that he did harm with his wealth and power in the time of his prosperity.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6The law and prophets forbade taking clothing as security for loans (Exodus 22:26–27; Deuteronomy 24:10–13; Ezekiel 18:7–8; Amos 2:8). In contrast, Job gave clothing to poor people (Job 31:19–20).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. The crimes alleged, on a harsh inference, by Eliphaz against Job are such as he would think likely to be committed by a rich man. The Mosaic law (Ex 22:26; De 24:10) subsequently embodied the feeling that existed among the godly in Job's time against oppression of debtors as to their pledges. Here the case is not quite the same; Job is charged with taking a pledge where he had no just claim to it; and in the second clause, that pledge (the outer…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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