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Excerpt from Notes, Critical, Illustrative and Practical on the Book of Job, Vol. 2: With a New Translation, and an Introductory Dissertation
6. For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought. The only evidence which Eliphaz seems to have had of this was, that this was a heinous sin, and that as Job seemed to be severely punished, it was to be inferred that he must have committed some such sin as this. No way of treating an unfortunate and a suffer ing man could be more unkind. A pledge is that which is given by a debtor to a creditor, for security for the payment ofa debt, and would be, of course, that which was regarded as of value. Garments, which con stituted a considerable part ofthe wealth of the Orientals, would usual ly be the pledge which would be given. With us, 'in such cases, watches, jewelry, notes, mortgages, are given as collateral security, or as pledges. The law of Moses required, that when a man took the garment of his neighbor for a pledge, it should be restored by the time the sun went down, Ex. Xxii. 26, 27. The crime here charged on Job was, that he had exacted a pledge from another where there was no just claim to it; that is, where no debt had been contracted, where a debt had been paid, or where the security was far beyond the va.
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