Job 24:7
They send men away naked, having taken the clothing of those who have no covering in the cold;
Catholic Public Domain 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 reap a field that is not their own, and they harvest a vineyard that they have taken by force.
8these are wet with the mountain rain, and, having no covering, they embrace the rocks.
Cross References
Exodus 22:26If you take a garment from your neighbor as a pledge, you shall return it to him again before the setting of the sun.
Deuteronomy 24:12But if he is poor, then the collateral shall not remain with you through the night.
Job 22:6For you have taken away the collateral of your brothers without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing.
Job 31:19if I have looked down on him who was perishing because he had no clothing and the poor without any covering,
Isaiah 58:7Break your bread with the hungry, and lead the destitute and the homeless into your house. When you see someone naked, cover him, and do not despise your 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 →