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“Aren’t you really very wicked?
    Is there no end to your wrongdoing?
For no reason you take your brothers’ goods as security for a loan
    and strip them of their clothes.[a]
You don’t even give a tired person a drink of water,
    and you take food away from hungry people.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 22:6 Clothes were often used as security deposits for loans in biblical times.

Is not your wickedness great?
    Are not your sins(A) endless?(B)
You demanded security(C) from your relatives for no reason;(D)
    you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.(E)
You gave no water(F) to the weary
    and you withheld food from the hungry,(G)

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