Ezekiel 18:16

16 or oppress anyone, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery, but he ¹gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing,

Ezekiel 18:16 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 18:16

Neither hath oppressed any (See Gill on Ezekiel 18:7). hath not withholden the pledge;
or, hath not pledged the pledge ^F8. The meaning is, not that he had not given one, but had not taken one. So the Targum,

``the pledge he hath not taken;''

or, if he did, he did not keep it beyond the time the law directs, but restored it to him whose it was; neither hath spoiled by violence, [but] hath given his bread to the
hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment.
The rest of the verse is the same with ( Ezekiel 18:7 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 (lbx al lbx) "pignus non pignoravit", Vatablus; "pignus non acceperit in pignus", Pagninus; "pignori", Montanus.

Ezekiel 18:16 In-Context

14 "Now behold, he has a son who has observed all his father's sins which he committed, and observing does not do likewise.

15 "He does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor's wife,

16 or oppress anyone, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery, but he gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing,

17 he keeps his hand from the poor, does not take interest or increase, but executes My ordinances, and walks in My statutes; he will not die for his father's iniquity, he will surely live.

18 "As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother and did what was not good among his people, behold, he will die for his iniquity.

Cross References

• 1. Job 31:16, 20; Psalms 41:1; Isaiah 58:7, 10; Ezekiel 18:7