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No, it is because you sin so much.
    You never stop sinning.
Maybe to guarantee loans you took things from people for no reason.
    Maybe you took a poor man’s clothes to make sure he paid you back.[a]
Maybe you failed to give water or food
    to people who were tired or hungry.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 22:6 paid you back See Deut. 24:12-13 for rules about making loans to the poor.

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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