Job 22:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.”
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“For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, And stripped the naked of their clothing.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For thou takest a pledge of thy brother for nought, And the garments of the naked Thou dost strip off.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 22:6 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 22:26If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 24:10When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
- Deuteronomy 24:12If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;
- Job 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
- Job 24:9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
- Job 29:12because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
- Job 31:19if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,
- Job 31:20if his heart has not blessed me for warming him with the fleece of my sheep,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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