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Job 22:6

New International Reader's Version

You took clothes away from your relatives just because they owed you some money. You left them naked for no reason at all.

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They take away the donkeys that belong to children whose fathers have died. They take a widow’s ox until she has paid what she owes.

The poor don’t have any clothes. So they spend the night naked. They don’t have anything to cover themselves in the cold.

That’s because I saved poor people who cried out for help. I saved helpless children whose fathers had died.

Suppose your neighbor owes you money and gives you a coat as a promise to pay it back. Then return it by sunset.

He treats poor and needy people badly. He steals. He does not pay back what he owes. He worships statues of gods. He does other things I hate.

He does not treat anyone badly. He does not make people give him something to prove they will pay back what they owe him. He does not steal. Instead, he gives his food to hungry people. He provides clothes for those who are naked.

He does not treat anyone badly. Instead, he always returns things he takes to make sure loans are paid back. He does not steal. Instead, he gives his food to hungry people. He provides clothes for those who are naked.

They lie down beside every altar on clothes they have taken. They lie on those clothes until the owner pays back what is owed. In the house of their God they drink wine that was paid as fines.

Someone might borrow money from you and give you two millstones to keep until you are paid back. Don’t keep them. Don’t even keep the upper one. That person needs both millstones to make a living.




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