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Job 22:6

Tree of Life Version

For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason; you stripped the naked of their clothing.

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They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

Without clothing they spend the night naked, without covering against the cold.

for I saved the poor who cried for help, and the orphan who had no one to help him;

for that is his only covering, his cloak for his skin. What will he sleep in? When he cries out to Me I will hear, because I am gracious.

wronged the poor and needy, taken by robbery, not restored the pledge, lifted up his eyes to the idols, committed abomination,

nor does he wrong anyone, take pledged property or commit robbery, but he gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,

He does not wrong anyone, returns his pledge for a debt, does not commit robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment.

Upon garments taken in pledge they stretch out beside every altar, and drink wine confiscated as fines in the house of their gods.

“No one is to take a pair of millstones or the upper one as collateral, for this would be taking a livelihood as collateral.