Teks -- Deuteronomy 24:12 (NET)

24:12 If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.

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Wesley: Deu 24:12 - Thou shalt not sleep

But restore it before night, which intimates that he should take no such thing for pledge, without which a man cannot sleep.

JFB: Deu 24:10-13 - When thou dost lend thy brother anything, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge

The course recommended was, in kind and considerate regard, to spare the borrower's feelings. In the case of a poor man who had pledged his cloak, it was to be restored before night, as the poor in Eastern countries have commonly no other covering for wrapping themselves in when they go to sleep than the garment they have worn during the day.

Clarke: Deu 24:12 - And if the man be poor, etc.

And if the man be poor, etc. - Did not this law preclude pledging entirely, especially in case of the abjectly poor? For who would take a pledge in the morning which he knew, if not redeemed, he must restore at night? However, he might resume his claim in the morning, and have the pledge daily returned, and thus keep up his property in it till the debt was discharged; see the note on Exo 22:26. The Jews in several cases did act contrary to this rule, and we find them cuttingly reproved for it by the Prophet Amos, Amo 2:8.

TSK: Deu 24:12

Deu 24:17; Job 22:6, Job 24:3, Job 24:9

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Deu 24:12

But restore it before night, which intimates that he should take no such thing for pledge, without which a man cannot sleep, since it were an idle thing to fetch it and carry it every day. See Poole "Exo 22:26,27" .

Haydock: Deu 24:12 - Night

Night, if it be a garment or bed covering, which may be necessary for the poor man. (Haydock) ---

By allowing the creditor to keep the pledge such a short time, God wished to discourage the taking of any from such as were in real distress. (Menochius) ---

The same regulation required, that if a necessary implement for labour, during the day time, was pledged, it should be returned in the morning. (Calmet) ---

This was done every day, to admonish the creditor and the debtor to exercise mercy and justice in their respective situations. The debtor was to remember to do his utmost in order to pay his debts. (St. Augustine, q. 41.) ---

These daily debts were not remitted in the sabbatic years, according to the Rabbins, whose opinion seems very hard and inconsistent. (Haydock) ---

Solomon advises not to stand bond for another's debts, Proverbs xx. 16., and xxii. 26. Many nations in the Indies allowed no action at law to recover debts, as the creditor ought to have taken his precautions before he parted with his money or merchandize. (Stobœus.; Strabo, xv.) (Calmet)

Gill: Deu 24:12 - And if the man be poor // thou shalt not sleep with his pledge

And if the man be poor,.... Which may be thought to be the case of everyone that gives pledges for a debt he owes, or a sum of money he borrows; yet there might be a difference: some might be so very destitute of goods and raiment in their houses, that whatever they parted with was distressing to them, and they could not well do without it:

thou shalt not sleep with his pledge; nor keep it a night; but deliver it to him, before he went to bed, and laid himself down to sleep.