| Geneva Study Bible For thou hast taken a {c} pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. (c) You have been cruel and without charity, and would do nothing for the poor, but for your own advantage. Wesley's Notes 22:6 Surely - He speaks thus by way of strong presumption, when I consider thy unusual calamities, I conclude thou art guilty of all, or some of these crimes. Brother - Of thy neighbour. Nought - Without sufficient and justifiable cause. Stripped - By taking their garment for a pledge, or by robbing them of their rights, all other injuries being comprehended under this. King James Translators' Notes the naked...: Heb. the clothes of the naked Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 6. The crimes alleged, on a harsh inference, by Eliphaz against Job are such as he would think likely to be committed by a rich man. The Mosaic law (Ex 22:26; De 24:10) subsequently embodied the feeling that existed among the godly in Job's time against oppression of debtors as to their pledges. Here the case is not quite the same; Job is charged with taking a pledge where he had no just claim to it; and in the second clause, that pledge (the outer garment which served the poor as a covering by day and a bed by night) is represented as taken from one who had not "changes of raiment" (a common constituent of wealth in the East), but was poorly clad-"naked" (Mt 25:36; Jas 2:15); a sin the more heinous in a rich man like Job. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 22:5-14 Eliphaz brought heavy charges against Job, without reason for his accusations, except that Job was visited as he supposed God always visited every wicked man. He charges him with oppression, and that he did harm with his wealth and power in the time of his prosperity. | 
