Job 22:6

Eliphaz fabricates specific sins, claiming Job seized pledges from his brothers and left people naked. He invents social injustices Job never committed.

Cross-references · 10

• Exod 22:26If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
• Ezek 18:12He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.
• Ezek 18:16He does not oppress another, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
• Deut 24:10–18When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
• Job 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
• Job 24:9–10The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
• Deut 24:6Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
• Job 31:19–20if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,
• Ezek 18:7He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
• Amos 2:8They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.

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