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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.
        A strong person owns the land.
        A privileged person lives in it.

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Footnotes

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

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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