Job 24:7
They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
In Context
6They cut their provender in the field, and they glean the vintage of the wicked.
8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
Cross References
Exodus 22:26If thou at all take thy neighbor's garment to pledge, thou shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
Deuteronomy 24:12And if he is a poor man, thou shall not sleep with his pledge.
Job 22:6For thou have taken pledges from thy brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job 31:19if I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
Isaiah 58:7Is it not to deal thy bread to a hungry man, and that thou bring the poor who are cast out to thy house, when thou see a naked man, that thou cover him, and that thou not hide thyself from thine own flesh?
Matthew Henry on Job 24:2-13
Outward Prosperity of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? 2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. 3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. 4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food… Read the whole commentary →