Job 24:7
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 24 connects to 10 cross-references. Job asks why the Almighty does not set times of judgment in which the wicked are punished. He catalogs injustices that God apparently tolerates: the wicked move boundary stones, oppress the poor, take widows as pledges, and murderers operate under …
Other Translations
They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.
The naked they cause to lodge Without clothing. And there is no covering in the cold.
They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold.
Cross References
Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from …
If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun …
For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall …
Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in …
For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
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;
She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.