New International Version
Job 24:7
7Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.
Job 24:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
- English Standard Version (ESV)They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
- New King James Version (NKJV)They spend the night naked, without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.
- New Living Translation (NLT)All night they lie naked in the cold, without clothing or covering.
Context of Job 24:7
5Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children. 6They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked. Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold. 8They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter. 9The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.
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עָר֣וֹם יָ֭לִינוּ מִבְּלִ֣י לְב֑וּשׁ וְאֵ֥ין כְּ֝ס֗וּת בַּקָּרָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 24:7
- Job 24:10Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
- Job 22:6You demanded security from your relatives for no reason; you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.
- Job 31:19if I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing, or the needy without garments,
- Exodus 22:26If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset,
- Deuteronomy 24:11Stay outside and let the neighbor to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you.
- Isaiah 58:7Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
- Acts 9:31Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.
- Genesis 31:40This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
- Proverbs 31:21When it snows, she has no fear for her household; for all of them are clothed in scarlet.
Commentaries on Job 24:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing - Or rather, They spend the night naked, without clothing; and without a covering from the cold: another characteristic of the wandering Arabs. They are ill-fed, ill-clothed. and often miserable off, even for tents. They can have little household stuff: as they are plunderers, they are often obliged to fly for their lives, and cannot encumber themselves with what is not absolutely needful.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing - They strip others of their clothing, and leave them destitute. That they have no covering in the cold - All travelers tell us, that though the day is intensely hot in the deserts of Arabia, yet the nights are often intensely cold. Hence, the sufferings of those who are plundered, and who have nothing to defend themselves from the cold air of the night.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7Those who did not lend fairly sometimes took the clothing or blankets of those in debt as a security for the loan. This left those in debt without proper clothing or covering (22:6; Exodus 22:26–27; Deuteronomy 24:11–13; Amos 2:8).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2-242-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24). Some--the wicked. landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 24
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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