6For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
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,
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,
When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. …
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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…
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