Job 24:7

Ill-clad, they are left to lodge without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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—a man’s fodder, they cut down, and, the vineyard of the lawless, they strip of its late berries;

8With the sweeping rain of the mountains, are they wet, and, through having no shelter, they embrace a rock.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:26If thou, do take in pledge, the mantle of thy neighbour, by the going in of the sun, shalt thou restore it to him;

Deuteronomy 24:12And, if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep in his pledge:

Job 22:6Surely then hast been wont to put thy brother in pledge, for nothing, and, the garments of the ill-clad, hast thou stripped off:

Job 31:19If I saw one perishing for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

Isaiah 58:7Is it not to break unto the hungry, thy bread, And the thrust-out oppressed, that thou bring into a home,—When thou seest one naked, that thou cover him, And from thine own flesh, shalt not hide thyself?

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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