LEV357 It is a negative commandment not to wrongfully retain anything belonging to one fellow man for Scripture says, You shall not wrongfully deprive your fellow [this verse]. This means that a person is not to withhold an item of monetary value of his fellow-man that came into his hand by the other's wish, and [now] he retains it and does not return it to the other: for example, if he has in his possession a loan [that the other lent him] or wages [that the other has earned] and the other cannot extract it from him because he is powerful, he thus violates this prohibition.