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I consulted within my own heart and contended with the nobles and the officials and said to them, “(A)You are exacting usury, each from his brother!” Therefore, I held a great assembly against them.

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I pondered them in my mind and then accused the nobles and officials. I told them, “You are charging your own people interest!”(A) So I called together a large meeting to deal with them

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[a]His harvest the hungry devour
And take it to a place of thorns,
And the [b](A)schemer pants after their wealth.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:5 Lit Whose
  2. Job 5:5 Ancient versions thirsty

The hungry consume his harvest,(A)
    taking it even from among thorns,
    and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

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15 He swallows up wealth,
But will (A)vomit it up;
God will expel it from his belly.

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15 He will spit out the riches(A) he swallowed;
    God will make his stomach vomit(B) them up.

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