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Job 24:7

They cause [the poor] to spend the night naked, without clothing and without any covering in the cold.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

In Context

6In the field they reap their food; and in the vineyard of the wicked they gather the fruit.

8Through the sweeping rain of the mountains are they made wet, and for want of a shelter do they embrace the rock.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:26(22:25) If thou take at all thy neighbor's raiment in pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him by the time the sun goeth down;

Deuteronomy 24:12And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not lie down with his pledge:

Job 22:6For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brothers for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 31:19If ever I saw any one perishing for want of clothing, or the needy without covering:

Isaiah 58:7Is it not to distribute thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the afflicted poor into thy house! when thou seest the naked, that thou clothe him; and that thou hide not thyself from 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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