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New Living Translation

Job 24:10

The poor must go about naked, without any clothing. They harvest food for others while they themselves are starving.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Dishonesty;   Homicide;   Poor;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Sheaves;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Poor, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Agriculture;   Apparel;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Poor;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Justice;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Sheaf;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Agriculture;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Without clothing, they wander about naked.They carry sheaves but go hungry.
Hebrew Names Version
So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
King James Version
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
English Standard Version
They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves;
New Century Version
So the poor go around naked without any clothes; they carry bundles of grain but still go hungry;
New English Translation
They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.
Amplified Bible
"They cause the poor to go about naked without clothing, And they take away the sheaves [of grain] from the hungry.
New American Standard Bible
"The poor move about naked without clothing, And they carry sheaves, while going hungry.
World English Bible
So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
Geneva Bible (1587)
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the glening from the hungrie.
Legacy Standard Bible
Those poor ones walk about naked without clothing,And hungry ones carry the sheaves.
Berean Standard Bible
Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
Contemporary English Version
Then they are forced to work naked in the grain fields because they have no clothes, and they go hungry.
Complete Jewish Bible
so that they go about stripped, unclothed; they go hungry, as they carry sheaves [of grain];
Darby Translation
These go naked without clothing, and, hungry, they bear the sheaf;
Easy-to-Read Version
They have no clothes, so they work naked. They carry piles of grain for others, but they go hungry.
George Lamsa Translation
They cause them to go naked without clothing, and they take away bread from the hungry,
Good News Translation
But the poor must go out with no clothes to protect them; they must go hungry while harvesting wheat.
Lexham English Bible
They go about naked, without clothing, and hungry, they carry the sheaves.
Literal Translation
They make them go without clothing, and are hungry; they lift up the sheaves.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
In so moch that they let them go naked without clothinge, and yet the hungrie beare the sheeues.
American Standard Version
So that they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.
Bible in Basic English
Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So that they go about naked without clothing, and being hungry they carry the sheaves;
King James Version (1611)
They cause him to go naked without clothing: and they take away the sheafe from the hungry,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
They let hym go naked without clothing, and haue taken away the sheafe of the hungrie.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they have wrongfully caused others to sleep without clothing, and taken away the morsel of the hungry.
English Revised Version
So that they go about naked without clothing, and being an-hungred they carry the sheaves;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei token awey eeris of corn fro nakid men, and goynge with out cloth, and fro hungry men.
Update Bible Version
[So that] they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.
Webster's Bible Translation
They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;
New King James Version
They cause the poor to go naked, without clothing; And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.
New Life Bible
They make the poor go about without clothing, making them carry loads of cut grain while they are hungry.
New Revised Standard
They go about naked, without clothing; though hungry, they carry the sheaves;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Naked, they go about without clothing, and, famished, they carry the sheaves;
Douay-Rheims Bible
From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.
Revised Standard Version
They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves;
Young's Literal Translation
Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry -- have taken away a sheaf.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They cause the poor to go about naked without clothing, And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

Contextual Overview

1 "Why doesn't the Almighty bring the wicked to judgment? Why must the godly wait for him in vain? 2 Evil people steal land by moving the boundary markers. They steal livestock and put them in their own pastures. 3 They take the orphan's donkey and demand the widow's ox as security for a loan. 4 The poor are pushed off the path; the needy must hide together for safety. 5 Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, the poor must spend all their time looking for food, searching even in the desert for food for their children. 6 They harvest a field they do not own, and they glean in the vineyards of the wicked. 7 All night they lie naked in the cold, without clothing or covering. 8 They are soaked by mountain showers, and they huddle against the rocks for want of a home. 9 "The wicked snatch a widow's child from her breast, taking the baby as security for a loan. 10 The poor must go about naked, without any clothing. They harvest food for others while they themselves are starving.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they take away: Deuteronomy 24:19, Amos 2:7, Amos 2:8, Amos 5:11, Amos 5:12

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 24:14 - General Job 22:6 - stripped Job 24:7 - the naked Jeremiah 22:13 - buildeth Ephesians 6:9 - ye James 5:4 - the hire

Cross-References

Genesis 11:31
One day Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai (his son Abram's wife), and his grandson Lot (his son Haran's child) and moved away from Ur of the Chaldeans. He was headed for the land of Canaan, but they stopped at Haran and settled there.
Genesis 24:2
One day Abraham said to his oldest servant, the man in charge of his household, "Take an oath by putting your hand under my thigh.
Genesis 24:4
Go instead to my homeland, to my relatives, and find a wife there for my son Isaac."
Genesis 24:5
The servant asked, "But what if I can't find a young woman who is willing to travel so far from home? Should I then take Isaac there to live among your relatives in the land you came from?"
Genesis 24:6
"No!" Abraham responded. "Be careful never to take my son there.
Genesis 24:8
If she is unwilling to come back with you, then you are free from this oath of mine. But under no circumstances are you to take my son there."
Genesis 24:9
So the servant took an oath by putting his hand under the thigh of his master, Abraham. He swore to follow Abraham's instructions.
Genesis 24:10
Then he loaded ten of Abraham's camels with all kinds of expensive gifts from his master, and he traveled to distant Aram-naharaim. There he went to the town where Abraham's brother Nahor had settled.
Genesis 24:22
Then at last, when the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring for her nose and two large gold bracelets for her wrists.
Genesis 24:23
"Whose daughter are you?" he asked. "And please tell me, would your father have any room to put us up for the night?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They cause [him] to go naked without clothing,.... Having taken his raiment from him for a pledge, or refusing to give him his wages for his work, whereby he might procure clothes to cover him, but that being withheld, is obliged to go naked, or next to it:

and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry; the Vulgate Latin version renders it, "ears of corn", such as the poor man plucked as he walked through a corn field, in order to rub them in his hand, and eat of, as the disciples of Christ, with which the Pharisees were offended, Luke 6:1; and which, according to a law in Israel, was allowed to be done, Deuteronomy 23:25; but now so severe were these wicked men to these poor persons, that they took away from them such ears of corn: but it is more likely that this sheaf was what the poor had gleaned, and what they had been picking up ear by ear, and had bound up into a sheaf, in order to carry home and beat it out, and then grind the corn of it, and make a loaf of it to satisfy their hunger; but so cruel and hardhearted were these men, that they took it away from them, which they had been all, or the greatest part of the day, picking up; unless it can be thought there was a custom in Job's country, which was afterwards a law among the Jews, that if a sheaf was forgotten by the owner, and left in the field when he gathered in his corn, he was not to go back for it, and fetch it, but leave it to the poor, Deuteronomy 24:19; but these men would not suffer them to have it, but took it away from them; or the words may be rendered, as they are by some, "the hungry carry the sheaf" p that is, of their rich oppressive masters, who having reaped their fields for them, and bound up the corn in sheaves, carry it home for them; and yet they do not so much as give them food for their labour, or wages to purchase food to satisfy their; hunger, and so dealt with them worse than the oxen were, according to the Jewish law, which were not to be muzzled when they trod out the corn, but might eat of it, Deuteronomy 25:4.

p ורעבים נשאו עמר "et famelici gestant manipulum", Tigurine version, Mercerus; so Schultens, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And they take away the sheaf from the hungry - The meaning of this is, that the hungry are compelled to bear the sheaf for the rich without being allowed to satisfy their hunger from it. Moses commanded that even the ox should not be muzzled that trod out the grain Deuteronomy 25:4; but here was more aggravated cruelty than that would be, in compelling men to bear the sheaf of the harvest without allowing them even to satisfy their hunger. This is an instance of the cruelty which Job says was actually practiced on the earth, and yet God did not interpose to punish it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 24:10. They cause him to go naked — These cruel, hard-hearted oppressors seize the cloth made for the family wear, or the wool and flax out of which such clothes should be made.

And they take away the sheaf — Seize the grain as soon as it is reaped, that they may pay themselves the exorbitant rent at which they have leased out their land: and thus the sheaf - the thraves and ricks, by which they should have been supported, are taken away from the hungry.


 
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