Job 22:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

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  • Exod 22:26 : 26 If you take your neighbor's garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,
  • Ezek 18:12 : 12 Has oppressed the poor and needy, has spoiled by violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
  • Ezek 18:16 : 16 Nor has oppressed anyone, has not withheld the pledge, nor spoiled by violence, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,
  • Job 24:3 : 3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
  • Job 24:9-9 : 9 They snatch the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge from the poor. 10 They make him go naked without clothing and take away the sheaf from the hungry;
  • Job 31:19-20 : 19 If I have seen any perish for lack 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 lower or the upper millstone as a pledge: for he takes a man's life as a pledge.
  • Deut 24:10-18 : 10 When you lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge. 11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring out the pledge to you. 12 And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge: 13 In any case you shall return the pledge to him when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own clothing, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God. 14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is of your brethren or of the strangers that are in your land within your gates: 15 You shall give him his wages on the same day, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it: lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you. 16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. 17 You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as a pledge: 18 But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there: therefore I command you to do this thing.
  • Amos 2:8 : 8 They lie 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 has not oppressed anyone, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has spoiled none by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,

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    7 You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

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    7 And has not oppressed anyone, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has spoiled none by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,

  • Exod 22:25-27
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    78%

    25 If you lend money to any of my people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him interest.

    26 If you take your neighbor's garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,

    27 for that is his only covering, his garment for his skin. What will he sleep in? And it shall come to pass, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

  • Job 22:5
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    5 Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquities infinite?

  • Ezek 18:16
    78%

    16 Nor has oppressed anyone, has not withheld the pledge, nor spoiled by violence, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,

  • Job 24:9-10
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    77%

    9 They snatch the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge from the poor.

    10 They make him go naked without clothing and take away the sheaf from the hungry;

  • Ezek 22:10-13
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    10 In you they have uncovered their fathers' nakedness: in you they have humbled her who was set apart for impurity.

    11 One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

    12 In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord GOD.

    13 Behold, therefore I have struck My hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been in your midst.

  • Deut 24:10-13
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    77%

    10 When you lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

    11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring out the pledge to you.

    12 And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:

    13 In any case you shall return the pledge to him when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own clothing, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.

  • Prov 27:13
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    13 Take his garment when he is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for a foreign woman.

  • Prov 22:26-27
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    76%

    26 Do not be one of those who shake hands, or of those who are sureties for debts.

    27 If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

  • Deut 24:17
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    17 You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as a pledge:

  • Prov 20:16
    76%

    16 Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold it in pledge for a foreign woman.

  • Isa 3:6
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    6 When a man shall take hold of his brother in his father’s house, saying, You have clothing, be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand:

  • Job 24:7
    74%

    7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, so they have no covering in the cold.

  • Ezek 23:26
    73%

    26 They shall also strip you of your clothes, and take away your fine jewels.

  • Isa 58:7
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    7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you do not hide yourself from your own flesh?

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    15 If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food,

  • Amos 5:11
    73%

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    17 But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

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    9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

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    6 No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone as a pledge: for he takes a man's life as a pledge.

  • Ezek 18:12
    72%

    12 Has oppressed the poor and needy, has spoiled by violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

  • Exod 23:6
    72%

    6 You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his dispute.

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    3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will not meet you as a man.

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    27 Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.

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    22 Do not rob the poor because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;

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    16 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.

  • Amos 2:8
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    8 They lie down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.

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    71%

    7 In you they have treated father and mother with contempt: in your midst they have dealt oppressively with the stranger: in you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

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    19 If I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or any poor without covering;

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