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

Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

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For you have (A)taken pledges from your brother for no reason,
And stripped the naked of their clothing.
You have not given the weary water to drink,
And you (B)have withheld bread from the hungry.
But the [a]mighty man possessed the land,
And the honorable man dwelt in it.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 22:8 Lit. man of arm