Job · Chapter 24

Job 24:7

¹Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?²Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.³They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.⁴They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.⁵Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.⁶They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.⁷They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.⁸They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.⁹They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.¹⁰They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;¹¹Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.¹²Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.¹³They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.¹⁴The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.¹⁵The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.¹⁶In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.¹⁷For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.¹⁸He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.¹⁹Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.²⁰The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.²¹He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.²²He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.²³Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.²⁴They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.²⁵And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

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Verse	KJV	BSB	ASV
7	They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.	Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.	They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.

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English	Hebrew	Say it	Strong's	Meaning
naked	עָר֣וֹם	a-ROM	H6174	naked עָרוֹם (a.rom) naked, bare
they spend [the] night	יָ֭לִינוּ	YA-li-nu	H3885A	to lodge לוּן (lun) 1) to lodge, stop over, pass the night, abide 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to lodge, pass the night 1a2) to abide, remain (fig.) 1b) (Hiphil) to cause to rest, lodge 1c) (Hithpalpel) to dwell, abide
because not	מִבְּלִ֣י	mi-be-LI	H1097	without בְּלִי (be.li) subst 1) wearing out adv of negation 2) without, no, not
clothing	לְב֑וּשׁ	le-VUSH	H3830	clothing לְבוּשׁ (le.vush) clothing, garment, apparel, raiment Aramaic equivalent: le.vush (לְבוּשׁ "garment" H3831)
and there not	וְאֵ֥ין	ve-'EIN	H0369	nothing אַ֫יִן (a.yin) 1) nothing, not, nought n 1a) nothing, nought neg 1b) not 1c) to have not (of possession) adv 1d) without w/prep 1e) for lack of
[is] covering	כְּ֝ס֗וּת	ke-SUT	H3682	covering כְּסוּת (ke.sut) 1) covering, clothing 1a) covering, clothing 1b) covering (for concealment)
in the coldness	בַּקָּרָֽה׃	ba-ka-RAH	H7135	cold קָרָה (qa.rah) cold

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Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.