Job 24 · Verse 7

Job 24:7

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
Job 24:7, King James Version

Job 24:7 in other translations

BSBWithout clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.
WEBThey lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
ASVThey lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.
YLTThe naked they cause to lodge Without clothing. And there is no covering in the cold.
DARBYThey pass the night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;
BBEThey take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold.
WebsterThey cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

What does Job 24:7 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 24:2-25

2-24. 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).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 7 They 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.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 24:1-12

Job discourses further about the prosperity of the wicked. That many live at ease who are ungodly and profane, he had showed, ch. xxi. Here he shows that many who live in open defiance of all the laws of justice, succeed in wicked practices; and we do not see them reckoned with in this world. He notices those that do wrong under pretence of law and authority; and robbers, those that do wrong by force. He says, "God…

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Job 24:7 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

עָר֣וֹםa.RomnakedH6174
יָ֭לִינוּYa.li.nuthey spend [the] nightH3885
מִבְּלִ֣יmi.be.Libecause notH1097
לְב֑וּשׁle.VushclothingH3830
וְאֵ֥יןve.'Einand there notH369
כְּ֝ס֗וּתke.Sut[is] coveringH3682
בַּקָּרָֽה\׃ba.ka.Rahin the coldnessH7135

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 24:7

  • Exodus 22:26-27

    If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

  • Job 22:6

    For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • Deuteronomy 24:11-13

    Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee. And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God.

  • Job 24:10

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

  • Proverbs 31:21

    She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

  • Genesis 31:40

    Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

  • Job 31:19-20

    If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

  • Isaiah 58:7

    Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

  • Acts 9:31

    Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the naked.
10; 22:6; 31:19,20; Ex 22:26,27; De 24:11-13; Isa 58:7; Ac 9:31
no covering.
Ge 31:40; Pr 31:21; *marg:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 24:6

    They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

  • Job 24:7

    They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

  • Job 24:8

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

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Job 24:7 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Al desnudo hacen dormir sin ropa, y que en el frío no tenga cobertura.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Ils passent la nuit tout nus, sans vêtement, et n’ont pas de couverture par le froid;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Nackt übernachten sie, ohne Gewand, und haben keine Bedeckung in der Kälte.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Nudos dimittunt homines, indumenta tollentes, quibus non est operimentum in frigore: