Verse 6

For you have taken pledges from your brothers without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

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  • Exod 22:26 : 26 For it is his only covering, the cloak for his body. What else can he sleep in? If he cries out to me, I will hear him, for I am gracious.
  • Ezek 18:12 : 12 oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore a pledge, looks to idols, and does detestable things,
  • Ezek 18:16 : 16 He does not oppress anyone, or require a pledge for a loan, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
  • Job 24:3 : 3 They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox as security.
  • Job 24:9-9 : 9 They snatch the orphan from the breast and take the poor as a pledge. 10 They go about naked without clothing, and they carry sheaves while hungry.
  • Job 31:19-20 : 19 if I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing, or the needy without garments, 20 and their hearts did not bless me for warming them with the fleece from my sheep—
  • Deut 24:6 : 6 Do not take a pair of millstones, not even the upper one, as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person's livelihood as a pledge.
  • Deut 24:10-18 : 10 When you lend your neighbor anything, do not enter their house to take what is offered as a pledge. 11 You must wait outside while the person to whom you are lending brings the pledge out to you. 12 If the person is poor, do not keep their pledge overnight. 13 Return their pledge by sunset so that they may sleep in their own garment and bless you; this will be considered a righteous act before the LORD your God. 14 Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns. 15 Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and depend on it. Otherwise, they may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin. 16 Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin. 17 Do not pervert justice for the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow's garment as security for a pledge. 18 Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this.
  • Amos 2:8 : 8 'They stretch out beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their gods they drink wine taken as fines.'
  • Ezek 18:7 : 7 He does not oppress anyone, but restores a pledge for a loan; he does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked.