Job 24:7

They have caused many naked to sleep without clothes, 1 And they have taken away the covering of their body. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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: 1 The poor have labored in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food. 1

8They are wet with the drops of the mountains: 1 They have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 22:26For this is his clothing, this is the only covering of his nakedness; wherein shall he sleep? If then he shall cry to me, I will hearken to him, for I am merciful.

Deuteronomy 24:12And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge.

Job 22:6And thou hast taken security of thy brethren for nothing, 1 And hast taken away the clothing of the naked. 1

Job 31:19And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him; 1

Isaiah 58:7Break thy bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to thy house: if thou seest one naked, clothe him, and thou shalt not disregard the relations of thine 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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