Job 24:7

They send men away naked, taking away their clothes who have no covering in the cold:

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 the field that is not their own, and gather the vintage of his vineyard whom by violence they have oppressed.

8Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:26If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt give it him again before sunset.

Deuteronomy 24:12But if he be poor, the pledge shall not lodge with thee that night,

Job 22:6For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 31:19If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:

Isaiah 58:7Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy 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 →

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