Job 24:7
5 Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
6 They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.
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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.
- KJV
- They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
- WEB
- They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
- ASV
- They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.
- DARBY
- They pass the night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;
- BLB
- Naked they spend the night without a garment, and with no covering in the cold.
- ÅB
- Nakne overnatter de uten klær og uten dekke i kulden.
- OTB
- De tilbringer natten uten klær,
Og har ingen dekke mot kulden. - B1930
- Nakne overnatter de uten klær og uten dekke i kulden.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 22:26–27
If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
Read in contextJob 22:6
For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 24:11–13
You are to stand outside while the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you.
Read in contextJob 24:10
Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
Read in contextProverbs 31:21
When it snows, she has no fear for her household, for they are all clothed in scarlet.
Read in contextGenesis 31:40
As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
Read in contextJob 31:19–20
if I have seen one perish for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a cloak,
Read in contextIsaiah 58:7
Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
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