Job 22:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For you have exacted pledges from your family for no reason and stripped the naked of their clothing.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For you have taken pledges of your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

You have taken payments from your family for no reason; stripped the naked, leaving no clothes;

Catholic Public Domain Version

For you have taken away the collateral of your brothers without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Job 22:6 Cross References

Job 24:3

They drive away the donkey of the orphan; they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

Job 24:7

They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

Job 29:12

because I delivered the poor who cried and the orphan who had no helper.

Exodus 22:26

If you take your neighbor’s cloak as guarantee, you shall restore it before the sun goes down,

Ezekiel 18:12

oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,

Ezekiel 18:16

does not wrong anyone, exacts no pledge, commits no robbery but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,

Ezekiel 18:7

does not oppress anyone but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,

Amos 2:8

they lay themselves down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink wine bought with fines they imposed.

Deuteronomy 24:6

“No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.