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Is not your wickedness great,
    your iniquity endless?
You keep your relatives’ goods in pledge unjustly,[a]
    leave them stripped naked of their clothing.(A)
To the thirsty you give no water to drink,
    and from the hungry you withhold bread;

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Footnotes

  1. 22:6–9 This criticism of Job by Eliphaz is untrue (cf. 31:19), but he is driven to it by his belief that God always acts justly, even when he causes someone to suffer; suffering is due to wrongdoing (cf. v. 29).

Is not your wickedness great?
    Are not your sins(A) endless?(B)
You demanded security(C) from your relatives for no reason;(D)
    you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.(E)
You gave no water(F) to the weary
    and you withheld food from the hungry,(G)

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