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Maybe to guarantee loans you took things from people for no reason.
    Maybe you took a poor man’s clothes to make sure he paid you back.[a]
Maybe you failed to give water or food
    to people who were tired or hungry.
You have a lot of farmland,
    and people respect you.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 22:6 paid you back See Deut. 24:12-13 for rules about making loans to the poor.

You demanded security(A) from your relatives for no reason;(B)
    you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.(C)
You gave no water(D) to the weary
    and you withheld food from the hungry,(E)
though you were a powerful man, owning land(F)
    an honored man,(G) living on it.(H)

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