KJV King James Version
They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;
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Job 24:10
They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
WEB World English Bible
So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
ASV American Standard Version
So that they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry—have taken away a sheaf.
Surrounding context — Job 24
7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10 They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;
11 [Which] make oil within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them].
13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
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Amos 2:7-8That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name:Deuteronomy 24:19When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.Amos 5:11-12Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
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