Job 24:7
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing. And there is no covering in the cold.
Literal Standard 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 his provender in a field, || And they glean the vineyard of the wicked.
8From the inundation of hills they are wet, || And without a refuge—have embraced a rock.
Cross References
Exodus 22:26if you take the garment of your neighbor in pledge at all, you return it to him during the going in of the sun:
Deuteronomy 24:12And if he is a poor man, you do not lie down with his pledge;
Job 22:6For you take a pledge of your brother for nothing, || And you strip off the garments of the naked.
Job 31:19If I see [any] perishing without clothing, || And there is no covering for the needy,
Isaiah 58:7Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, || And bring home the wandering poor, || That you see the naked and cover him, || And do not hide yourself from 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 →