Job 22:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For thou hast taken a pledge from 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 neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
• Ezek 18:12 : 12 Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
• Ezek 18:16 : 16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, 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 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. 10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
• Job 31:19-20 : 19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; 20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
• Deut 24:6 : 6 No man shall take the nether 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 brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. 11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee. 12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: 13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God. 14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: 15 At 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 the LORD, 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 pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: 18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
• Amos 2:8 : 8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
• Ezek 18:7 : 7 And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;