King James Version
What Does Job 24:10 Mean?
“They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;”
Context
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They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
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They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
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They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
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Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(10) **They cause him to go naked without clothing.**—Rather, *they go about, *or, *so that they go about, naked without clothing *(the tautology is expressive in Hebrew, though meaningless in English), *and an hungered they carry the sheaves.*
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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