“And stripped men naked” (NASB)<\/p>\n
“you stripped men of their clothing, leaving them naked” (NIV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
But in doing this, they lost a subtly. People who are inadequately clothed can already be naked. And the accusation is that Job is worse than despicable by taking even the too little clothing that these people had.\u00a0 The Hebrew adjective ‘<\/i>arom<\/i>, used in the second word, refers to being without clothing. It can mean without any clothes or being inadequately clothed as it is being used in Job 22:6. Eliphaz was accusing Job of taking clothes from the poor, who were already inadequately clothed, and leaving them with nothing.<\/p>\n
Also, remember that Job lived around the same time as Abraham. Eliphaz could not be referencing the Law of Moses that was recorded about 500 to 1,000 years later. The law in Deuteronomy 24:12-13 was regarding not holding a man’s outer robe, or cloak, as a pledge for a loan beyond the end of the day.<\/p>\n
I will be adjusting the wording in the article because the accusation is not limited to threadbare clothing.<\/p>\n\t
Response:<\/h2>\n
Good reply. I suppose Eliphaz could have accused Job of that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: Dear Jeff, We use quite a bit of your material in our bulletin with links to your site. For your consideration:\u00a0I found your article on Modest Apparel.\u00a0\u00a0The context of Job 22:6 does not seem to support your contention that Job was disrobing the naked (as if humiliating the immodest person), but rather being accused…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[208,752,206],"class_list":["post-4856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-clothing","tag-job","tag-nakedness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38568,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/explain-the-statement-in-job-god-giveth-and-god-taketh-away\/","url_meta":{"origin":4856,"position":0},"title":"Explain the statement in Job: “God giveth and God taketh away”","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"October 10, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Explain the statement in Job: \"God giveth and God taketh away.\" Answer: \"He said, 'Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. 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