No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh [a man's] life to pledge.
Ver. 6. A man's life.] That is, his livelihood. A poor man in his house is like a snail in his shell, crush that and you kill him. See Luk 8:43 Mark 12:44. All her life, ολον του βιον, that is, all her living.