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

⁶ 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

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ For you have taken pledges of your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, And stripped the naked of their clothing.

Common English Bible

⁶ You have taken payments from your family for no reason; stripped the naked, leaving no clothes;

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ 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

⁶ 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.