Job 24:10

Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

In Context

9The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

11Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 24:19When you get in the grain from your field, if some of the grain has been dropped by chance in the field, do not go back and get it, but let it be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on all the work of your hands.

Amos 5:11So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

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 →

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