Internet Verse Search Commentaries Word Analysis ITL - draft

Job 22:6

Context
NETBible

“For you took pledges 1  from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked. 2 

XREF

Ex 22:26; De 24:10-18; Job 24:3,9; Job 24:10; Job 31:19,20; Eze 18:7,12,16; Am 2:8

NET © Notes

tn The verb חָבַל (khaval) means “to take pledges.” In this verse Eliphaz says that Job not only took as pledge things the poor need, like clothing, but he did it for no reason.

tn The “naked” here refers to people who are poorly clothed. Otherwise, a reading like the NIV would be necessary: “you stripped the clothes…[leaving them] naked.” So either he made them naked by stripping their garments off, or they were already in rags.



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