When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge.
You demanded security from your relatives for no reason; you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.
If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset,
because that cloak is the only covering your neighbor has. What else can they sleep in? When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.
Rather, be openhanded and freely lend them whatever they need.
Stay outside and let the neighbor to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you.