Job 24:7

They have caused many naked to sleep without clothes, and they have taken away the covering of their body.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time: the poor have laboured in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food.

8They are wet with the drops of the mountains: they have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:26And if you take your neighbor's garment for a pledge, you shall restore it to him before sunset.

Deuteronomy 24:12If your neighbor owe you a debt, any debt whatever, you shall not go into his house to take his pledge:

Job 22:6And you have taken security of your brethren for nothing, and have taken away the clothing of the naked.

Job 31:19And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him;

Isaiah 58:7Break your bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to your house: if you see one naked, clothe him, and you shall not disregard the relations of your own seed.

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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