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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Job 24:7

Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Dishonesty;   Homicide;   Poor;   Wicked (People);   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Creditors;   Poor, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Pledge;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ass;   Justice;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cold;   Cover;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jubilees, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Without clothing, they spend the night naked,having no covering against the cold.
Hebrew Names Version
They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.
King James Version
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
English Standard Version
They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
New Century Version
They spend the night naked, because they have no clothes, nothing to cover themselves in the cold.
New English Translation
They spend the night naked because they lack clothing; they have no covering against the cold.
Amplified Bible
"They spend the night naked, without clothing, And have no covering against the cold.
New American Standard Bible
"They spend the night naked, without clothing, And have no covering against the cold.
World English Bible
They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.
Geneva Bible (1587)
They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde.
Legacy Standard Bible
They spend the night naked, without clothing,And have no covering against the cold.
Contemporary English Version
They sleep naked in the cold, because they have no cover,
Complete Jewish Bible
They pass the night without clothing, naked, uncovered in the cold,
Darby Translation
They pass the night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;
Easy-to-Read Version
They must sleep all night without clothes. They have no covers to protect them from the cold.
George Lamsa Translation
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, and they have no covering in the cold.
Good News Translation
At night they sleep with nothing to cover them, nothing to keep them from the cold.
Lexham English Bible
They spend the night naked, without clothing, and they have no garment in the cold.
Literal Translation
They lodge naked ones without clothing, and they give no cover against the cold.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They are the cause yt so many men are naked and bare, hauynge no clothes to couer them and kepe them from colde:
American Standard Version
They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.
Bible in Basic English
They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
King James Version (1611)
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they haue no couering in the cold.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They have caused many naked to sleep without clothes, and they have taken away the covering of their body.
English Revised Version
They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei leeuen men nakid, and taken awei the clothis, to whiche men is noon hiling in coold;
Update Bible Version
They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.
Webster's Bible Translation
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.
New King James Version
They spend the night naked, without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.
New Living Translation
All night they lie naked in the cold, without clothing or covering.
New Life Bible
They lie all night without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
New Revised Standard
They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ill-clad, they are left to lodge without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;
Douay-Rheims Bible
They send men away naked, taking away their clothes who have no covering in the cold:
Revised Standard Version
They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
Young's Literal Translation
The naked they cause to lodge Without clothing. And there is no covering in the cold.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They spend the night naked, without clothing, And have no covering against the cold.

Contextual Overview

1Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days? 2Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks. 3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow's ox in pledge. 4They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding. 5Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children. 6They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked. 7Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.8Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter. 9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt. 10Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the naked: Job 24:10, Job 22:6, Job 31:19, Job 31:20, Exodus 22:26, Exodus 22:27, Deuteronomy 24:11-13, Isaiah 58:7, Acts 9:31

no covering: Genesis 31:40, Proverbs 31:21, *marg.

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 24:13 - deliver Proverbs 25:20 - that taketh Ecclesiastes 4:1 - and considered

Cross-References

Genesis 13:15
For all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.
Genesis 15:18
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land-from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates-
Genesis 17:8
And to you and your descendants I will give the land of your sojourn-all the land of Canaan-as an eternal possession; and I will be their God."
Genesis 24:1
By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.
Genesis 24:3
and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling,
Genesis 24:4
but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac."
Genesis 24:5
The servant asked him, "What if the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the land from which you came?"
Genesis 24:6
Abraham replied, "Make sure that you do not take my son back there.
Genesis 24:7
The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father's house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, 'To your offspring I will give this land'-He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.
Genesis 24:16
Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing,.... That is, such as are poorly clothed, thinly arrayed, have scarce anything but rags, and yet so cruel the wicked men above described, that they take these away from the poor, and even their bed clothes, which seem chiefly designed; so that they are obliged to lodge or lie all night without anything upon them:

that [they have] no covering in the cold; neither in the daytime, nor in the night, and especially the latter; and having no house to go to, and obliged to lay themselves down upon the bare ground, had nothing to cover them from the inclemency of the weather; for even in hot countries nights are sometimes cold, and large dews fall, yea, sometimes it is a frost, see Genesis 31:40.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 24:7. 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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