Job 24:7
They spend the night naked because they have no clothes; they have nothing to cover themselves against the cold.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
In Context
8They are soaked by the cold mountain storms, and huddle beside the rocks for shelter.
Cross References
Exodus 22:26If you require your neighbor's cloak as security for a loan, you must return it to him by sunset,
Deuteronomy 24:12If he is a poor man he may give his cloak as security, but you must not keep it when you go to sleep.
Job 22:6For no reason at all you took your brother's clothing as a security for a debt, and left them stripped naked.
Job 31:19If ever I saw someone needing clothes, the poor without anything to wear,
Isaiah 58:7Share your food with the hungry, take the poor and homeless into your house. When you see people naked, give them clothes, and don't reject your own relatives.
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 →