Job 22:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־תַחְבֹּ֣ל אַחֶ֣יךָ חִנָּ֑ם וּבִגְדֵ֖י עֲרוּמִּ֣ים תַּפְשִֽׁיט׃

Transliteration

kî-taḥbōl ʾaḥeykā ḥinnām û-bigdê ʿărummîm tapšîṭ

Grammar Details

• *kî-taḥbōl*: conjunction + Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - for you take pledge
• *ʾaḥeykā*: noun, masculine plural construct + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your brothers
• *ḥinnām*: adverb - without cause/for nothing
• *û-bigdê*: conjunction + noun, masculine plural construct - and garments of
• *ʿărummîm*: adjective, masculine plural - naked ones
• *tapšîṭ*: Hiphil imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - you strip

Word Meanings

• *taḥbōl*: to take pledge/take as security
• *ʾaḥeykā*: your brothers/relatives/kinsmen
• *ḥinnām*: for nothing/without cause/without payment
• *bigdê*: garments/clothes/coverings
• *ʿărummîm*: naked ones/naked people
• *tapšîṭ*: to strip/undress/remove clothing

Referenced Verses

• Exod 22:26 : 26 If thou at all take thy neighbor's garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him before the sun goeth down:
• Ezek 18:12 : 12 hath wronged the poor and needy, hath taken by robbery, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
• Ezek 18:16 : 16 neither hath wronged any, hath not taken aught to pledge, neither hath taken by robbery, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
• Job 24:3 : 3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the widow's ox for a pledge.
• Job 24:9-9 : 9 There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor; 10 [ So that] they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.
• Job 31:19-20 : 19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering; 20 If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
• Deut 24:6 : 6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh [a man's] life to pledge.
• Deut 24:10-18 : 10 When thou dost lend thy neighbor any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. 11 Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee. 12 And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge; 13 thou shalt surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before Jehovah thy God. 14 Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates: 15 in his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it be sin unto thee. 16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. 17 Thou shalt not wrest the justice [due] to the sojourner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's raiment to pledge; 18 but thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and Jehovah thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
• Amos 2:8 : 8 and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.
• Ezek 18:7 : 7 and hath not wronged any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath taken nought by robbery, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;