JOB 22:6 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) You’ve forced your brothers into unnecessary debt to you.
 ⇔ ≈You’ve demanded clothes in payment and left people naked.

Key: yellow:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULT For you have bound your brother with a pledge without cause,
⇔ and you have stripped off the clothing of the naked.

UST You must have unfairly forced poor people to give you things to guarantee that they would pay money back to you.
⇔ You must have taken the cloaks that they needed to keep them warm.

BSB For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers
⇔ and deprived the naked of their clothing.

OEB Thou hast wrongly taken pledge of thy brother,
⇔ And stripped from the naked their clothing.

WEB For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing,
⇔ and stripped the naked of their clothing.

NET “For you took pledges from your brothers
 ⇔ for no reason,
 ⇔ and you stripped the clothing from the naked.

LSV For you take a pledge of your brother for nothing,
And you strip off the garments of the naked.

FBV For no reason at all you took your brother's clothing as a security for a debt, and left them stripped naked.

T4T You must have lent money to others and wrongly forced them to give you things to guarantee that they would pay that money back to you;
⇔ you must have taken all their clothes and left them with nothing to wear.

LEB • and you have stripped off the clothes of the naked.

BBE For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.

MOF No MOF JOB book available

JPS For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

ASV For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought,
 ⇔ And stripped the naked of their clothing.

DRA For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

YLT For thou takest a pledge of thy brother for nought, And the garments of the naked Thou dost strip off.

DBY For thou hast taken a pledge of thy brother for nought, and stripped off the clothing of the naked.

RV For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

WBS For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for naught, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

KJB For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.[fn]
(For thou/you hast taken a pledge from thy/your brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.)

22.6 the naked…: Heb. the clothes of the naked

BB For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for naught, and robbed the naked of their clothing.
(For thou/you hast taken the pledge from thy/your brother for naught, and robbed the naked of their clothing.)

GNV For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.
(For thou/you hast taken the pledge from thy/your brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked. )

CB Thou hast take the pledge from thy brethre for naught, & robbed the naked of their clothinge:
(Thou hast take the pledge from thy/your brethre for naught, and robbed the naked of their clothinge:)

WYC For thou hast take awei with out cause the wed of thi britheren; and hast spuylid nakid men of clothis.
(For thou/you hast take away with out cause the wed of thy/your brethren/brothers; and hast spuylid nakid men of clothes.)

LUT Du hast etwa deinem Bruder ein Pfand genommen ohne Ursache, du hast den Nackenden die Kleider ausgezogen;
(You hast approximately deinem brother a Pfand genommen without Ursache, you hast the Nackenden the clothes ausgezogen;)

CLV Abstulisti enim pignus fratrum tuorum sine causa, et nudos spoliasti vestibus.[fn]
(Abstulisti because pignus fratrum tuorum without causa, and nudos spoliasti vestibus.)

22.6 Abstulisti enim pignus. Hæc ad litteram aperta sunt, etc., usque ad vel dona spiritualia perdunt, qui ad te veniunt.

22.6 Abstulisti because pignus. Hæc to litteram aperta are, etc., usque to or dona spiritualia perdunt, who to you(sg) veniunt.

BRN And thou hast taken security of thy brethren for nothing, and hast taken away the clothing of the naked.

BrLXX Ἠνεχύραζες δὲ τοὺς ἀδελφούς σου διακενῆς, ἀμφίασιν δὲ γυμνῶν ἀφείλου.
(Aʸneⱪurazes de tous adelfous sou diakenaʸs, amfiasin de gumnōn afeilou. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-words-phrases

כִּֽי

that/for/because/then/when

Eliphaz is not saying that Job has definitely done the wrongs that he describes in this verse and the next three verses. He is using the word For to encourage Job to consider what he might have done wrong, since God seems to be punishing him for something. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could indicate this in your translation. Alternate translation: “Perhaps” or “Consider whether”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

תַחְבֹּ֣ל אַחֶ֣י⁠ךָ חִנָּ֑ם

exacted_pledges brothers,your for_no_reason

By without cause, Eliphaz probably means that Job did not need to take a garment in pledge as security for the kind of small loan that a laborer in this culture would require. Job was a wealthy man, Eliphaz notes in verse 8, and he could afford a relatively small loss, while the outer garment the laborer would have to give in pledge (described in the second half of the verse) probably represented his most valuable possession. Eliphaz may also be suggesting that the laborer was trustworthy and Job could have and should have trusted him to repay the loan without demanding security. Your culture may have terms and customs relating to loans and pledges that you could use in your translation to bring out the implicit meaning here. Alternate translation: “you have forced your brother to give you his outer garment as security for a loan, even though you did not need to do that”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

אַחֶ֣י⁠ךָ

brothers,your

Eliphaz is using the term brother figuratively to mean a fellow human being. He is suggesting that Job should feel an affinity for any fellow human. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “your fellow human being”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

וּ⁠בִגְדֵ֖י עֲרוּמִּ֣ים תַּפְשִֽׁיט

and,clothing nude/naked stripped

The word translated naked can describe people who have little clothing, and that seems to be the meaning here. It would not make sense to speak of the clothing of people who were naked in the sense of having no clothing. The idea seems to be that by taking in pledge an outer garment that a laborer would also use as a blanket at night, Job was leaving that person without enough clothing to stay warm. You could indicate that in your translation if it would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “indeed, you have left that person without enough clothing to stay warm”

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