Job 24:10
8 Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.
9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
11 They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
12 From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
- KJV
- They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
- WEB
- so that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
- ASV
- [So that] they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.
- DARBY
- These go naked without clothing, and, hungry, they bear the sheaf;
- BLB
- Naked They go about, without clothing, and hungry—they carry a sheaf.
- ÅB
- Nakne går de, uten klær, og sultne bærer de kornbånd.
- OTB
- De får de fattige til å gå omkring uten klær,
Og de tar bort kornbåndene fra de sultne. - B1930
- Nakne går de, uten klær, og sultne bærer de kornbånd.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Amos 2:7–8
They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 24:19
If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Read in contextAmos 5:11–12
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
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