Job 24:10

Verse

Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

American Standard Version (1901)

So that they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.

Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

Because they have no clothes to wear they have to go naked, harvesting sheaves of grain while they themselves are hungry.

King James (Authorized) Version

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

Translation for Translators

But the poor people walk around with no clothes on; they are hungry while they are working to carry other people’s bundles of grain to the places where their grain will be threshed.

Unlocked Literal Bible

But the poor people go about naked without clothing; although they go hungry, they carry bundles of grain belonging to other people.

Noah Webster Bible

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

World English Bible

so that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

Young's Literal Translation

Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry — have taken away a sheaf.

Context

Job: Judgment for the Wicked

⁹The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt. ¹⁰Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry. ¹¹They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.

Summary

In this verse, Job laments the cruelty and injustice he observes in society, highlighting how the wicked oppress the poor and needy, causing them to go about naked and hungry. Job questions why these evildoers are not punished by God for their actions, expressing his confusion and frustration at the seeming lack of divine intervention. This verse reflects the common theme of the problem of evil and the apparent silence of God in the face of human suffering, prompting reflection on the complexities of morality and justice in the world.

Commentary

Adam Clarke
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
John Gill

Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

They cause him to go naked - These cruel, hard-hearted oppressors seize the cloth made for the family wear, or the wool and flax out of which such clothes should be made. And they take away the sheaf - Seize the grain as soon as it is reaped, that they may pay themselves the exorbitant rent at which they have leased out their land: and thus the sheaf - the thraves and ricks, by which they should have been supported, are taken away from the hungry.

John Gill Bible Commentary

They cause him to go naked without clothing,.... Having taken his raiment from him for a pledge, or refusing to give him his wages for his work, whereby he might procure clothes to cover him, but that being withheld, is obliged to go naked, or next to it: and they take away the sheaf from the hungry; the Vulgate Latin version renders it, "ears of corn", such as the poor man plucked as he walked through a corn field, in order to rub them in his hand, and eat of, as the disciples of Christ, with which the Pharisees were offended, Luk 6:1; and which, according to a law in Israel, was allowed to be done, Deu 23:25; but now so severe were these wicked men to these poor persons, that they took away from them such ears of corn: but it is more likely that this sheaf was what the poor had gleaned, and what they had been picking up ear by ear, and had bound up into a sheaf, in order to carry home and beat it out, and then grind the corn of it, and make a loaf of it to satisfy their hunger; but so cruel and hardhearted were these men, that they took it away from them, which they had been all, or the greatest part of the day, picking up; unless it can be thought there was a custom in Job's country, which was afterwards a law among the Jews, that if a sheaf was forgotten by the owner, and left in the field when he gathered in his corn, he was not to go back for it, and fetch it, but leave it to the poor, Deu 24:19; but these men would not suffer them to have it, but took it away from them; or the words may be rendered, as they are by some, "the hungry carry the sheaf" (p) that is, of their rich oppressive masters, who having reaped their fields for them, and bound up the corn in sheaves, carry it home for them; and yet they do not so much as give them food for their labour, or wages to purchase food to satisfy their; hunger, and so dealt with them worse than the oxen were, according to the Jewish law, which were not to be muzzled when they trod out the corn, but might eat of it, Deu 25:4. (p) "et famelici gestant manipulum", Tigurine version, Mercerus; so Schultens, Michaelis.

Job 24:10

Job: Judgment for the Wicked

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Commentary

Berean Standard Bible

Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

American Standard Version (1901)

So that they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.

Bible in Basic English

Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

Free Bible Version

Because they have no clothes to wear they have to go naked, harvesting sheaves of grain while they themselves are hungry.

King James (Authorized) Version

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

Translation for Translators

But the poor people walk around with no clothes on; they are hungry while they are working to carry other people’s bundles of grain to the places where their grain will be threshed.

Unlocked Literal Bible

But the poor people go about naked without clothing; although they go hungry, they carry bundles of grain belonging to other people.

Noah Webster Bible

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

World English Bible

so that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

Young's Literal Translation

Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry — have taken away a sheaf.