Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 22:6

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6. The crimes alleged, on a harsh inference, by Eliphaz against Job are such as he would think likely to be committed by a rich man. The Mosaic law ( Exodus 22:26 ; Deuteronomy 24:10 ) subsequently embodied the feeling that existed among the godly in Job's time against oppression of debtors as to their pledges. Here the case is not quite the same; Job is charged with taking a pledge where he had no just claim to it; and in the second clause, that pledge (the outer garment which served the poor as a covering by day and a bed by night) is represented as taken from one who had not "changes of raiment" (a common constituent of wealth in the East), but was poorly clad—"naked" ( Matthew 25:36 ; James 2:15 ); a sin the more heinous in a rich man like Job. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-7" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

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• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
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