Job 24:10 - Forerunner Commentary

Job 24:10

8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains,
And ^ahuddle around the rock for want of shelter.

9 “Some snatch the fatherless from the breast,
And take a pledge from the poor.

10 They cause the poor to go naked, without ^aclothing;
And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

11 They press out oil within their walls,
And tread winepresses, yet suffer thirst.

12 The dying groan in the city,
And the souls of the wounded cry out;
Yet God does not charge them with wrong.

13 “There are those who rebel against the light;
They do not know its ways
Nor abide in its paths.

14 ^aThe murderer rises with the light;
He kills the poor and needy;
And in the night he is like a thief.

New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.

Verse Comparison: Job 24:10

American Standard Version
`So that' they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.

Amplified® Bible
So that the needy go about naked for lack of clothing, and though hungry, they must carry [but not eat from] the sheaves.

Contemporary English Version
Then they are forced to work naked in the grain fields because they have no clothes, and they go hungry.

Darby English Version
These go naked without clothing, and, hungry, they bear the sheaf;

Good News Bible
But the poor must go out with no clothes to protect them; they must go hungry while harvesting wheat.

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

New American Standard Bible
"They cause {the poor} to go about naked without clothing, And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

New International Version
Lacking clothes, they go about naked;
they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

New King James Version
They cause the poor to go naked, without clothing;
And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"They cause the poor to go about naked without clothing, And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

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 English Translation
They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.¹

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