Job 24:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 22:26-27 : 26 If you do take the garment of your neighbor in pledge, you must return it to him by the time the sun goes down, 27 for it is his only covering– it is his garment for his body. What else can he sleep in? And when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.
  • Job 22:6 : 6 “For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.
  • Deut 24:11-13 : 11 You must stand outside and the person to whom you are making the loan will bring out to you what he is offering as security. 12 If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering. 13 You must by all means return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just deed by the LORD your God.
  • Gen 31:40 : 40 I was consumed by scorching heat during the day and by piercing cold at night, and I went without sleep.
  • Job 24:10 : 10 They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.
  • Job 31:19-20 : 19 If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without a coat, 20 whose heart did not bless me as he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep,
  • Prov 31:21 : 21 She would not fear for her household in winter, because all of her household were clothed with scarlet,
  • Isa 58:7 : 7 I want you to share your food with the hungry and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people. When you see someone naked, clothe him! Don’t turn your back on your own flesh and blood!
  • Acts 9:31 : 31 Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced peace and thus was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, the church increased in numbers.

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    8They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter.

    9The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

    10They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.

    11They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.

  • Job 24:2-6
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    2Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.

    3They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

    4They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.

    5Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.

    6They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

  • Job 22:6-7
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    6“For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.

    7You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.

  • Job 31:19
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    19If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without a coat,

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

    17For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

  • Jas 2:15
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    15If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food,

  • Isa 28:20
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    20For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap around oneself.

  • Ezek 23:29
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    29They will treat you with hatred, take away all you have labored for, and leave you naked and bare. Your nakedness will be exposed, just as when you engaged in prostitution and obscene conduct.

  • Ezek 18:16
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    16does not oppress anyone or keep what has been given in pledge, does not commit robbery, gives his food to the hungry, and clothes the naked,

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  • Prov 4:16
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    16For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

  • Matt 24:18
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    18and the one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.

  • Ezek 16:39
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    39I will give you into their hands and they will destroy your chambers and tear down your pavilions. They will strip you of your clothing and take your beautiful jewelry and leave you naked and bare.

  • Isa 58:7
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    7I want you to share your food with the hungry and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people. When you see someone naked, clothe him! Don’t turn your back on your own flesh and blood!

  • Job 30:5-6
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    5They were banished from the community– people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves–

    6so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

  • Job 24:19
    69%

    19The drought as well as the heat snatch up the melted snow; so the grave snatches up the sinner.

  • Job 24:13-14
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    13There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.

    14Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.

  • Job 6:17
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    17When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

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    25They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

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    17The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.

  • Ezek 7:18
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    18They will wear sackcloth, terror will cover them; shame will be on all their faces, and all of their heads will be shaved bald.

  • Job 5:14
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    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.

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    14Look, they are like straw, which the fire burns up; they cannot rescue themselves from the heat of the flames. There are no coals to warm them, no firelight to enjoy.

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    26They will strip your clothes off you and take away your beautiful jewelry.

  • Job 15:28
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    28he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

  • Prov 24:34
    68%

    34and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber.”

  • Job 30:3
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    3gaunt with want and hunger, they would roam the parched land, by night a desolate waste.

  • Ezek 22:10
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    10They have sexual relations with their father’s wife within you; they violate women during their menstrual period within you.

  • Hos 7:6
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    6They approach him, all the while plotting against him. Their hearts are like an oven; their anger smolders all night long, but in the morning it bursts into a flaming fire.

  • Ps 94:6
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    6They kill the widow and the resident foreigner, and they murder the fatherless.

  • Amos 2:7-8
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    7They trample on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; they push the destitute away. A man and his father go to the same girl; in this way they show disrespect for my moral purity.

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    14נ(Nun) They wander blindly through the streets, defiled by the blood they shed, while no one dares to touch their garments.

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    25May their camp become desolate, their tents uninhabited!

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    4They wandered through the wilderness, in a wasteland; they found no road to a city in which to live.

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    37They were stoned, sawed apart, murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

  • Exod 22:27
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    27for it is his only covering– it is his garment for his body. What else can he sleep in? And when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.