Job 24:7

Easy-to-Read Version

They must sleep all night without clothes. They have no covers to protect them from the cold.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Without clothing, they spend the night naked,having no covering against the cold.

Hebrew Names Version
They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.

King James Version
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

English Standard Version
They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

New Century Version
They spend the night naked, because they have no clothes, nothing to cover themselves in the cold.

New English Translation
They spend the night naked because they lack clothing; they have no covering against the cold.

Amplified Bible
"They spend the night naked, without clothing, And have no covering against the cold.

New American Standard Bible
"They spend the night naked, without clothing, And have no covering against the cold.

World English Bible
They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.

Geneva Bible (1587)
They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde.

Legacy Standard Bible
They spend the night naked, without clothing,And have no covering against the cold.

Berean Standard Bible
Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.

Contemporary English Version
They sleep naked in the cold, because they have no cover,

Complete Jewish Bible
They pass the night without clothing, naked, uncovered in the cold,

Darby Translation
They pass the night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;

George Lamsa Translation
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, and they have no covering in the cold.

Good News Translation
At night they sleep with nothing to cover them, nothing to keep them from the cold.

Lexham English Bible
They spend the night naked, without clothing, and they have no garment in the cold.

Literal Translation
They lodge naked ones without clothing, and they give no cover against the cold.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They are the cause yt so many men are naked and bare, hauynge no clothes to couer them and kepe them from colde:

American Standard Version
They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.

Bible in Basic English
They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

King James Version (1611)
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they haue no couering in the cold.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They have caused many naked to sleep without clothes, and they have taken away the covering of their body.

English Revised Version
They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei leeuen men nakid, and taken awei the clothis, to whiche men is noon hiling in coold;

Update Bible Version
They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.

Webster's Bible Translation
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.

New King James Version
They spend the night naked, without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.

New Living Translation
All night they lie naked in the cold, without clothing or covering.

New Life Bible
They lie all night without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

New Revised Standard
They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ill-clad, they are left to lodge without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;

Douay-Rheims Bible
They send men away naked, taking away their clothes who have no covering in the cold:

Revised Standard Version
They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

Young's Literal Translation
The naked they cause to lodge Without clothing. And there is no covering in the cold.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They spend the night naked, without clothing, And have no covering against the cold.

Contextual Overview

¹ "Why doesn't God All-Powerful set times for judgment? And why can't his followers know when those times will be? ² "People move property markers to get more of their neighbor's land. People steal flocks and lead them to other grasslands. ³ They steal a donkey that belongs to an orphan. They take a widow's cow until she pays what she owes them. They take a nursing baby from its mother. They take a poor person's child to guarantee a loan. ⁴ They force the poor to move out of their way and to get off the road. ⁵ "The poor are like wild donkeys that go out to the desert to find food. From morning to night they work to gather food for their children. ⁶ They have to work in the fields, harvesting grain. They work for the rich, gathering grapes in their vineyards. ⁷ They must sleep all night without clothes. They have no covers to protect them from the cold. ⁸ They are soaked with rain in the mountains. They stay close to the large rocks for shelter. They have no clothes, so they work naked. They carry piles of grain for others, but they go hungry. They press out olive oil and walk on grapes in the winepress, but they have nothing to drink. In the city you can hear the sad sounds of dying people. Those who are hurt cry out for help, but God does not listen. "Some people rebel against the light. They don't know what God wants. They don't live the way he wants. A murderer gets up at dawn and kills poor, helpless people. And at night he becomes a thief. A man who commits adultery waits for the night to come. He thinks, ‘No one will see me,' but still, he covers his face. When it is dark, evil people go out and break into houses. But during the day they lock themselves in their homes to avoid the light. The darkest night is their morning. They are friends with the terrors of darkness. " You say, ‘Evil people are taken away like things carried away in a flood. The land they own is cursed, so no one goes to work in their vineyards. As hot, dry weather melts away the winter snows, so the grave takes away those who have sinned. Their own mothers will forget them. Only the worms will want them. No one will remember them. They will be broken like a rotten stick! These evil people hurt women who have no children to protect them, and they refuse to help widows. By his power God removes the powerful. Even if they have a high position, they cannot be sure of their lives. They might feel safe and secure, but God is watching how they live. They might be successful for a while, but then they will be gone. Like everyone else, they will be cut down like grain.' "I swear these things are true! Who can prove that I lied? Who can show that I am wrong?" ⁹ They take a nursing baby from its mother. They take a poor person's child to guarantee a loan. They force the poor to move out of their way and to get off the road. "The poor are like wild donkeys that go out to the desert to find food. From morning to night they work to gather food for their children. They have to work in the fields, harvesting grain. They work for the rich, gathering grapes in their vineyards. They must sleep all night without clothes. They have no covers to protect them from the cold. They are soaked with rain in the mountains. They stay close to the large rocks for shelter. ¹⁰ They have no clothes, so they work naked. They carry piles of grain for others, but they go hungry.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the naked: Job 24:10, Job 22:6, Job 31:19, Job 31:20, Exodus 22:26, Exodus 22:27, Deuteronomy 24:11-13, Isaiah 58:7, Acts 9:31

no covering: Genesis 31:40, Proverbs 31:21, *marg.

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 24:13 - deliver Proverbs 25:20 - that taketh Ecclesiastes 4:1 - and considered

Cross-References

Genesis 13:15
All this land that you see I will give to you and your people who live after you. This will be your land forever.

Genesis 15:18
So on that day the Lord made a promise and an agreement with Abram. He said, "I will give this land to your descendants. I will give them the land between the River of Egypt and the great river Euphrates.

Genesis 17:8
And I will give this land to you and to all your descendants. I will give you the land you are traveling through—the land of Canaan. I will give you this land forever, and I will be your God."

Genesis 24:1
Abraham lived to be a very old man. The Lord blessed him and everything he did.

Genesis 24:3
Now I want you to make a promise to me. Promise to me before the Lord , the God of heaven and earth, that you will not allow my son to marry a girl from Canaan. We live among these people, but don't let him marry a Canaanite girl.

Genesis 24:4
Go back to my country, to my own people, to find a wife for my son Isaac. Bring her here to him."

Genesis 24:5
The servant said to him, "Maybe this woman will not want to come back with me to this land. If that happens, should I take your son with me to your homeland?"

Genesis 24:6
Abraham said to him, "No, don't take my son to that place.

Genesis 24:7
The Lord , the God of heaven, brought me from my homeland to this place. That place was the home of my father and the home of my family, but he promised that this new land would belong to my family. May he send his angel before you so that you can choose a wife for my son.

Genesis 24:16
She was very pretty. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her. She went down to the well and filled her jar.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing,.... That is, such as are poorly clothed, thinly arrayed, have scarce anything but rags, and yet so cruel the wicked men above described, that they take these away from the poor, and even their bed clothes, which seem chiefly designed; so that they are obliged to lodge or lie all night without anything upon them:

that [they have] no covering in the cold; neither in the daytime, nor in the night, and especially the latter; and having no house to go to, and obliged to lay themselves down upon the bare ground, had nothing to cover them from the inclemency of the weather; for even in hot countries nights are sometimes cold, and large dews fall, yea, sometimes it is a frost, see Genesis 31:40.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing - They strip others of their clothing, and leave them destitute.

That they have no covering in the cold - All travelers tell us, that though the day is intensely hot in the deserts of Arabia, yet the nights are often intensely cold. Hence, the sufferings of those who are plundered, and who have nothing to defend themselves from the cold air of the night.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 24:7. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing — Or rather, They spend the night naked, without clothing; and without a covering from the cold: another characteristic of the wandering Arabs. They are ill-fed, ill-clothed. and often miserable off, even for tents. They can have little household stuff: as they are plunderers, they are often obliged to fly for their lives, and cannot encumber themselves with what is not absolutely needful.