If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
Do not charge interest to the poor who borrow by necessity; but show mercy to those you might exploit, and share loss as well as profit with them. Do not strip a poor man of his bedclothes for a debt, but return them by nightfall so he has something to lie on. Those who sleep warm ought to consider the hard lodgings of the poor and refuse to make their suffering worse.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 22:25-31
Thou shalt not revile the gods,.... Meaning not the idols of the Gentiles, which they reckon gods, and worship as such; which is the sense of Philo, and some others, particularly Josephus (i), who, to curry favour with the Roman emperors given to idolatry, has from hence inserted the following among the laws given to Moses;"let no man blaspheme the gods, which other cities think...
If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, &c.--From the nature of the case, this is the description of a poor man. No Orientals undress, but, merely throwing off their turbans and some of their heavy outer garments, they sleep in the clothes which they wear during the day.