Job 24:7
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
Updated King James 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 every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
Cross References
Exodus 22:26If you at all take your neighbour's raiment to pledge, you shall deliver it unto him by that the sun goes down:
Deuteronomy 24:12And if the man be poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:
Job 22:6For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job 31:19If I have seen any perish for lack of clothing, or any poor without covering;
Isaiah 58:7Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you hide not yourself from yours 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 →