Job 22:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 22:6 —

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Cross-References

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Exodus 22:26
If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
Ezekiel 18:12
Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
Ezekiel 18:16
Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
Deuteronomy 24:10-18
When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. …
Job 24:3
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Alms Bail Beggars Creditor Debt Debtor Interest

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-14)

Eliphaz and his companions had condemned Job, in general, as a wicked man and a hypocrite; but none of them had descended to particulars, nor drawn up any articles of impeachment against him, until Eliphaz did so here, where he positively and expressly charges him with many high crimes and misdemeanours, which, if he had really been guilty of them, might well have justified them in their harsh cen…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. 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…