Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Creditors » Often exacted debts » From the sureties
Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties for burdens. If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take thy bed from under thee?
Evil one suffereth when he hath been surety for a stranger, And whoso is hating suretyship is confident.
Debt » Security for
For thou takest a pledge of thy brother for nought, And the garments of the naked Thou dost strip off.
None doth take in pledge millstones, and rider, for life it is he is taking in pledge.
And on pledged garments they stretch themselves near every altar, And the wine of fined ones they drink in the house of their gods.
They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.
'If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury; if thou dost at all take in pledge the garment of thy neighbour, during the going in of the sun thou dost return it to him: for it alone is his covering, it is his garment for his skin; wherein doth he lie down? and it hath come to pass, when he doth cry unto Me, that I have heard, for I am gracious.
'When thou liftest up on thy brother a debt of anything, thou dost not go in unto his house to obtain his pledge; at the outside thou dost stand, and the man on whom thou art lifting it up is bringing out unto thee the pledge at the outside. 'And if he is a poor man, thou dost not lie down with his pledge; read more.
thou dost certainly give back to him the pledge at the going in of the sun, and he hath lain down in his own raiment, and hath blessed thee; and to thee it is righteousness before Jehovah thy God.
thou dost certainly give back to him the pledge at the going in of the sun, and he hath lain down in his own raiment, and hath blessed thee; and to thee it is righteousness before Jehovah thy God.
Evil one suffereth when he hath been surety for a stranger, And whoso is hating suretyship is confident.
And there are who are saying, 'Our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses, we are pledging, and we receive corn for the famine.' And there are who are saying, 'We have borrowed money for the tribute of the king, on our fields, and our vineyards;
Surety » Who is sure
Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil, He high places doth inhabit, Strongholds of rock are his high tower, His bread hath been given, his waters stedfast.
Evil one suffereth when he hath been surety for a stranger, And whoso is hating suretyship is confident.
Surety » Those that are surety for a stranger
Evil one suffereth when he hath been surety for a stranger, And whoso is hating suretyship is confident.
Surety » Those that hate suretyship
Evil one suffereth when he hath been surety for a stranger, And whoso is hating suretyship is confident.