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Job 24:10

Poverty and the vulnerable

8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

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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

    That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:

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  • Deuteronomy 24:19

    When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

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  • Amos 5:11–12

    Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

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