Job 24:7
They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
In Context
6They cut their provender in the field; and they glean the vintage of the wicked.
8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
Cross References
Exodus 22:26If thou at all take thy neighbour’s garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
Deuteronomy 24:12And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
Job 22:6For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job 31:19If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
Isaiah 58:7Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine 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 →